I’m a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist with a masters in public health. I’ve been called the Doctor of the Future and one of the top 10 most creative people in health care by Fast Company. I’m also one of Esquire’s 2009 Best and Brightest “Radicals and Rebels Who Are Changing the World.”

I started a practice in NYC on September 24, 2007:

• patients would visit my website
• see my Google calendar
• choose a time and input their symptoms
• my iphone would alert me
• I would make a house call
• they’d pay me via paypal
• we’d follow up by email, IM, or videochat

This concept became Hello Health via a partnership with Myca so other doctors could practice this way. Hello Health is a mixture of secure social network and electronic medical record that enables doctors and patients to connect both in their office and online via email, IM, and video chat.

I now have a design firm called The Future Well. We design innovative products and services that create health and happiness.

I’m very active on my blog.

I speak at both consumer and healthcare events about healthcare, design, social innovation, marketing, technology, and strategy. Please email me if you’d like me to speak with your group.

UPCOMING.

Sutter Health, May 2010

Healthcare IT Institute, May 2010

Gov 2.0, May 2010

Clinton Global Initiative - April, 2010

South by Southwest - March, 2010

Harvard Social Enterprise Conference - February, 2010

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

DeThinking Service/Rethinking Design - Oslo, November 2009

Feast on Good - October 2009

Velocity Salon - September 2009

British Medical Association Executive Leadership Meeting - July 2009

The Guardian Activate Summit in London - July 2009

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement - May 2009

PSFK New York Conference - April 2009

Web 2.0 Conference - April 2009

Pecha Kucha New York - April 2009

Seth Godin’s SAMBA Group - March 2009

Glaxo Smith Kline Executive Innovation Group - March 2009

The Apple Store in Soho - February 2009

All Day Buffet - February 2009

MIT Media Lab - January 2009

Wharton School of Business - December 2008

Spanish Society of Family Physicians World Congress - Madrid, November 2008

California Chronic Health Foundation - November 2008

The Apple Store in Soho - November 2008

Department of Health and Human Services Health Policy Forum - October 2008

Bon Secours Executive Retreat - October 2008

Wireless Life Sciences Alliance - May 2008

Pop!Tech - October 2008

Agents of Change - June 2008

HIMSS - June 2008

Health 2.0 - March 2008

Healthcare needs a redesign.

Every 8 years, health insurance premiums double. We don’t have time before mandates are simply financially impossible for the American people.

We know that healthcare can be delivered with higher quality and half the cost. We see this in the top 10 functioning Healthcare Systems in the world, as measured by the World Health Organization. They do this by creating a closed-loop, 100% aligned System to render the proper care, not the most care. When incentives are aligned to deliver the most care, you get the US healthcare industry…double what other countries spend and ranked 37th in the world.

Since there has never been a reason to reinvent the business model of healthcare in America (and a mandate will not do this either), none of the players have tried. They would disrupt themselves. No industry will voluntarily decrease their revenue and profitability. And mandates sustain and increase that profitability. They do not curb it.

This should be an era of healthcare experimentation— not sustenance for a broken system. It doesn’t matter who pays for healthcare. If the business model of healthcare is unsustainable, changing who pays for healthcare will do very little, if anything.

We need broad, sweeping change to cut healthcare in half. “Here are 50 million new customers…carry on” type of handouts to the insurance industry simply won’t do this. In fact, handouts will prolong the death of the industry and hasten our country’s financial demise. We need disruptive innovation to enable closed loops in the process of healthcare delivery.

From my presentation at Pop!Tech. Other speakers included Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Anderson, Clay Shirky, and many others.

Fast Company: “The Doctor of the Future: Innovations like these are beginning to free U.S. medicine from the strictures that have given us the world’s costliest health care, but not the best health care.”

Health Affairs: “If you want a glimpse of what health care could look like a few years from now, consider “Hello Health,” the Brooklyn-based primary care practice that is fast becoming an emblem of modern medicine.”

Hospitals & Health Networks: “Your Future Chief of Staff?” Medical school, a master’s in public health and preventive medicine and a pediatrics residency matured and deepened Parkinson’s involvement with information technology. Laptops, e-mail and cell phones weren’t new ways to do old tasks; they were primary conduits of learning, friendship and relationships with colleagues. Instant data and communication permeated his daily life, influencing decisions large and small.

Newsweek: “One part doctor, one part tech innovator, one part salesman: the sum of those parts have made Parkinson the face of a new kind of health care. At his New York City clinic, his team of doctors uses dozens of means of communication—instant messaging, e-mail, texting, etc.—to communicate with their patients and each other.”

The Boston Globe: “The simplicity and visual appeal of demonstrations of the Hello Health software platform have made him a celebrity in the health technology world.”

NY Post: “A ‘revolutionary, new’ practice that has ‘has managed to do what the federal government has not yet — namely, provide fast, affordable, high-quality, easily accessible health care.’”

GOOD Magazine: “The platform is as straightforward to use as scheduling a trip to the Genius Bar on Apple.com.”

CNN: “We still see our doctor the same way our grandparents did. I think we’re about to see big changes in this area.”

Visa Business

And here’s a blog search for Jay Parkinson and Hello Health. Lots of people like to talk about us.

And lots more…

2007

September 24

I started a practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn summarized by:

1. Patients would visit my site.
2. See my embedded Google Calendar.
3. Choose a time and tell me your symptoms.
4. My iPhone alerted me.
5. I’d do a house call.
6. I’d get paid via PayPal.

I started my practice with $1500. My overhead was almost nothing. I got a lot of press. This led to my partnership with Myca to create Hello Health.

July

Completed a residency in Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins.

April - June

Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care
Toyota Lean Training and Implementation in Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Jan - Mar

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Healthcare Legislative Analyst
Baltimore, MD

2006

Nov - Dec

International Association of Firefighters
Occupational Health Physician in Residence
Washington DC

Sep - Oct

Johns Hopkins Community Physicians
Obesity Management Program Design
Baltimore, MD

Jul - Aug

Public Citizen
Health Research Group
Washington DC

Lead Author on a successful Petition to the FDA to include a black box warning on all fluoroquinolones

Lead Author on a pending Petition to the FDA to ban Third Generation Oral Contraceptives Containing Desogestrel Due to Increased Risk of Venous Thrombosis

June

Masters in Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2005

June

Completed my Pediatric Residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital in the West Village

2004

A big blur

2003

A bigger blur

2002

May

Graduated from Penn State University College of Medicine

1976

Feb

Born, St. Louis, Missouri

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
General Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Baltimore, MD 21205 
2005 - 2007

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Masters in Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21205 
2006

Saint Vincent’s Hospital – Manhattan
Department of Pediatrics
Residency
2002 - 2005 

The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033 
1998 - 2002 

Washington University
Saint Louis, Missouri 63130 
B.A., Biology
1998

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