Think Hot Spotting & Automated Hovering

June 27, 2012
It's a funny term, the concept of "automated hovering." But it was that term that made me read the recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Automated Hovering in Health Care — Watching Over the 5000 Hours.

The premise is simple. For any of us with a chronic health care condition, we rarely "visit" our health care professionals — 37 physician office visits a year is the "average" for someone with multiple chronic conditions. This leaves us with 4,963 waking hours a year to skip going to the gym in order to watch "American Idol . . .