Doctor Jay Parkinson became a celebrity last year as word spread about his unconventional practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Instead of maintaining a traditional office and paying support staff, Parkinson's operation is entirely virtual and requires almost no overhead. (Unless you consider a Mac overhead.) Instead, he operates a web site loaded with Web 2.0 touches that allows patients to easily get in touch and explains his services in plain English. After an initial in-person consultation, exchanges can be online, either through instant messaging, email or web cam. He uses Gmail to handle his email load and has neatly integrated Google Calendar into his web site - allowing patients to see his schedule at a glance and book their own appointments.
Resisting the argument that technology has created a new Race to the Bottom in healthcare, by making medicine less human and the healthcare system increasingly complex, Parkinson argues that when used properly, Web 2.0 tools like mash-ups, mobile devices, instant messaging, digital video and social networking can free doctors to spend more time with patients - not less.
@777AreY0uSure Awesome.
yoyomachico 5 months ago
if you died right now are you 100% sure you'd go to heaven?
777AreY0uSure 1 year ago
Dude thank you
your thoughts on health care are dead on
catra195 2 years ago
Wow what a hot Dr.!
MrBryanYoung 2 years ago
Brain chip - CHECK MY SITE.
bpyjktgiuk 2 years ago
....love it!!
However, we need to continue to ensure the "cyberspace" has the "connection" as a 1:1 visit....
I am so glad to hear you explain the healthcare system in such simple terms...streamline...
Where did you study medicine? I recently met a brain from
Georgetown/Harvard/MIT (fellowship)...doing IT tech/cutting edge...you would love to hook up w/ his brain..
Knew you were a creative soul..love th photg...
blessing,
suziestew/Nancy Nurse:)
suziestew 3 years ago
Noah is a patient!
nickmid23 3 years ago
Thanks for taking the leap and doing something smart instead of advocating for even bigger bureaucracy as if bureaucrats ever do anything interesting.
ilgarauchut 3 years ago
Trust a Canadian doctor to find a way, using technologies developed in the USA, to return to the tried and true 'Doctor Visits' of pre-Nixon America. Criticize Michael Moore's Film 'Sicko' but it DID reveal in audio tape (not THOSE missing 18 minutes) Nixon and Ehrlichman (Watergate?) conspiring to bilk Americans out of our savings and (in many cases) our homes due to rising healthcare costs driven higher due, in large part, to THEIR relationship with Kaiser of the Kaiser Permanente HMO.
lp115lp 3 years ago
Wow, great video - great production values. I can't wait to see the next one.
connectologist 3 years ago