Joseph Kvedar, MD, is the Director of the Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare. He blogs at The cHealth Blog, where this post originally appeared.
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One of the concepts occupying my mind is that of automated care. The last time I wrote about automated care was February of 2011 (Emotional Automation, Revisited). Lately I've been thinking about it more and more. The burden of chronic illness continues to rise and the size of the provider workforce is not keeping up. This manifests as overworked, unhappy providers, particularly in primary care.
