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After seeing colleagues Paulanne Balch, MD ( @BPBMD2 ), a physician at Kaiser Permanente and Sue Woods, MD , at Department of Veterans Affairs ( @suewoods , also blogs at http://www.sharedhealthdata.com ) at the recent mHealth Summit, I wanted to follow up by interviewing them for a podcast on this blog.

We talked about their impressions of the summit, how a cell phone can be used as a tool for health (hint, it may not be as complicated as people think, based on real patient stories) and how and why the medical profession may change in this new era.

I respect and and drawn to Paulanne and Sue’s work in a big way, and it came to me by the end of the ‘cast as to why this is. They are physicians who are excited about the future, and optimistic about every challenge along the way. They are not bystanders.

Enjoy, feel free to let us know what you think in the comments or at respective places in the twitter/blogosphere.

Danny Sands, MD

Phil Marshall, MD

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In the last 4 weeks, Danny Sands, MD ( @drdannysands ), Phil Marshall, MD ( no twitter handle, why, Phil? ), and I have spent quite a bit of time together.

“Your Physician Advisory Group for Hire” (except that we don’t charge anything) came from a conversation between myself, Phil Marshall, MD, and Danny Sands, that we had in San Francisco during Health Innovation Week, and later reprised (on a school night). In it, we shared our perceptions and ideas for the future of this great event. I will not do the event justice if I try and do a rundown of the things we saw and talked about. Fortunately, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn ( @healthythinker ) did a beautiful job describing what was big on her HealthPopuli blog. Highly recommended as an adjunct.

This is the first podcast I’ve ever posted on here, so we’ll see how it works out technically. Standard acronyms apply: FWIW, YMMV.

Phil and Danny are great to work with, and we like helping each other and others out, so if you have any topics that might spur another get-together of the three of us on a school night, let us know in the comments.