Dr. Ron Dixon Bio

Ronald Dixon, M.D., M.A, is the Creator and Director of the Virtual Practice Project at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is the Director of CIMIT’s (Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) Value Based Healthcare Delivery Program, and the Associate Medical Director of MGH Beacon Hill. Dr. Dixon completed his undergraduate work at McGill University, graduate work clinical neuropsychology at University of Buffalo, and medical training at Dartmouth Medical School. He completed residency training at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, and an administrative fellowship with the Massachusetts General Hospital Physicians Organization (MGPO).

Dr. Dixon’s interests are in alternative methods of health care delivery, specifically relating to technology adoption. He is the Principal Investigator on a number of research efforts, notably a joint effort with biomedical engineering to develop a kiosk based system for automating certain aspects of the care delivery process, and work involving clinical technology adoption.

Dr. Dixon will be speaking at MIT Emerging Technology Conference and the Mayo Clinic Healthcare Innovation Summit in September as well as Health 2.0 in October.

Most recently Dr. Dixon has appeared on BigThink where you can see more of his interviews

Visit CIMIT blog for more from Dr. Dixon

Comments

[Laurie, CIMIT Webmaster]

Hi Janet - No worries. The idea behind the technology is to supplement and enhance the face-to-face office visits, not replace them. I would recommend calling the MGH Beacon Hill practice at 617-726-4900 to get in touch with Dr. Dixon so he can answer your questions and concerns.

In the meantime, I've included a couple links where you can read more about the technology and the MGH Beacon Hill practice:

Learn more about the technology at http://www2.massgeneral.org/beaconhill/The%20Virtual%20Practice_9-08.pdf

Learn more about the MGH Beacon Hill Practice at http://www2.massgeneral.org/beaconhill/index.html

Cheers,

Laurie
CIMIT Webmaster

[Janet]

Hi,
I have been asked by my doc to participate in a study led by you. So I googled to find out who you are and learn more.
You ideas, based on the video on this blog site, seem good and make sense to me as a patient.
I just hope that the use of technology doesn't replace the 1-on-1, doctor-patient relationship. I think things start w/ good intentions but morph into something different. Is it possible to develop and use the technology yet guard relationships?
Thanks for what you are doing. I wish you the best.

[Laurie, CIMIT Webmaster]

Thanks Arron!

Cheers,

Laurie, CIMIT Webmaster

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Impressive blog! -Arron

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Great work doctor we wish you all the best ...and we will visit there definitely sir..a very informative blog and the content was too good nice blog to share the information thanks for the blog and I appreciate for the work done by you....

[Laurie, CIMIT Webmaster]

It's out pleasure. :)

Cheers,

Laurie, CIMIT Webmaster

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Informative video shared by you. I like your spirit. Please keep it up because the internet needs someone like you spreading the word.