“Lygeia Ricciardi sits at the intersection of federal health care reform and the digital revolution. Her job, in a nutshell, is to transform lofty and complex public health goals into easy-to-use, Internet-ready “patient empowerment” tools.
Ricciardi’s universe is a place where an elderly woman can use a wireless scale to weigh herself each day, with the data automatically transmitted to a home computer where it pops up as a graph that shows gain or loss over time. It’s a place where a low-income man at risk for diabetes can get a text message connecting him with a nearby doctor who will help monitor or manage his condition, before it spirals into a dangerous and costly health care episode.”
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Deirdre Shesgreen, The CT Monitor, 25 July 2011
