The FDA and Medical Apps: Where are We?
In a previous post on this site I discussed my reasons for endorsing FDA oversight of mobile medical apps. Since we are nearing a final decision by the FDA concerning the matter, I thought it fitting...
View ArticleData: Comparing Healthcare and Election 2012
This special post is not meant to be nor stimulate a partisan discussion on the impending election. It is a piece on how we view data differently, depending upon its context. We are, one day prior to...
View ArticleAdoption of mHealth Technologies: UK vs USA
The Secretary of Health for the UK, Jeremy Hunt recently said “…while mobile broadband technology is revolutionising most walks of life, there is a problem once people encounter the relatively...
View ArticlePatient Portal Adoption
Wikipedia defines patient portals as “…healthcare-related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers. Some patient portal applications exist as...
View ArticleFive Big Developments for Digital Health in 2013
I read with interest a few articles discussing predictions for digital health technologies for 2013. One such amusing article in informationweek.com had some which were in more detailed described as...
View ArticleBusiness Models of Digital Health Technologies: Implications for ROI
In my last post I discussed problems with measuring the ROI of digital health technologies. One of the problems is that the sector doesn’t fit neatly into traditional healthcare business models. There...
View ArticleThe Case for Efficacy Studies of Digital Health Technologies
As many readers of this blog know, I have long been a proponent of proven technology in the digital health space. Probably the most obvious reason is to dispel the generalized notion that these...
View ArticleCardiac Patients will Benefit from Digital Health Technologies
Cardiovascular disease, specifically sudden cardiac death is the number one killer in the USA and most westernized countries. Many of the technologies which have been developed to address the problems...
View ArticleWhat Does the Ideal Hospital mHealth Strategy Look like?
Most hospital IT administrators are presently dealing with Implementation of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use as well as planning for conversion to ICD-10 coding. Among more advanced institutions, the topic...
View Article#DigitalHealth: Patient Engagement Does Not Imply Patient Empowerment
Patient engagement is a phrase that is everywhere now. It is part of the vernacular in advocacy circles, government, health technology companies, and payers. It used to signal a new healthcare...
View Article#DigitalHealth: Five Fallacies of Remote Patient Monitoring
As defined in Wikipedia, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is: “a technology to enable monitoring of patients outside of conventional clinical settings (e.g. in the home), which may increase access to...
View ArticleRemote Patient Monitoring will Lead Value-Based Healthcare
Traditional health insurance reimbursement to providers (though payment is a more appropriate word) for healthcare services and products is at the root of our healthcare crisis. Our traditional fee...
View ArticleFive Things Healthcare Can Learn from Project Management
Physicians have traditionally been individual thinkers and doers. Healthcare in general has been generally slow to adopt proven successful methods of processes and technologies employed with success...
View ArticleSynergistic Impacts of Healthcare and Social Media: An Observational Study
There have been many articles written on the impact of social media on healthcare. Likewise, healthcare is transforming social media into a ‘place’ to obtain information on specific diseases, creating...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Music is an Ideal Digital Health Solution
Music as a healing mechanism has been accepted for over 50 years. Music is a source of primal memory similar to that of smell. It has been used in brain injury patient management, as well as to...
View ArticleHow Government Mandates Spur Development of Digital Health Technologies
Both WWII and the race to the moon were events which pushed commercial development of technologies. I would submit that the ACA and HITECH have had the same effect on the development of many sectors...
View ArticleFive Benefits of Online Patient Communities
If one searches for ‘online patient communities’ over 19 million Internet sites are found. Online patient communities (OPCs) may exist as subgroups of social media sites, non-profit...
View ArticleWhy Online Patient Communities are Better than Real Life Support Groups
A support group has many potential benefits, some of which include improving coping skills, reducing anxiety, depression, isolation, ignorance about the condition and others. Online patient...
View ArticleFive Benefits of Crowdsourced Medical Research Funding
Crowdsourced clinical studies have been the subject of previous posts by this author. The Wiki definition of crowdfunding is: “the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money,...
View ArticleFive Realities That Define the Digital Health Technology Continuum
The development of digital health technologies has and continues to involve people from diverse sectors: healthcare, telecommunications, IT, entrepreneurs, and patient advocates to name a few....
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