I’m a doctor in New York City.

After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, I started a practice for my neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2007:

1. Patients would visit my website
2. See my Google calendar
3. Choose a time and input their symptoms
4. My iphone would alert me
5. I would make a house call
6. They’d pay me via paypal
7. We’d follow up by email, IM, videochat, or in person

This concept became Hello Health 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.

Fast Company called me the Doctor of the Future and one of the top 10 most creative people in health care. I have a design firm called The Future Well. We dream up, design, and build products and services that inspire health and happiness. We launched Sherpaa, a health service in NYC in February 2012. Sherpaa connects employees to our group of doctors via email and phone 24/7 to solve health problems.  

I’m very active on my blog.

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