Category Archives: clinical trials

Crowdsource-derived Data for Post-Market Surveillance of Drugs and Medical Devices

Posted on April 5, 2024 by

Recently,Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, with Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Herb Kohl (D-WI), introduced the bipartisan Ensuring Safe Medical Devices for Patients Act. It requires the FDA to issue a Unique Device Identifier rule by the end … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced Clinical Studies: A New Paradigm in Health Care?

Posted on March 30, 2024 by

The Miriam-Webster defines crowdsourcing as: “the practice of obtaining participants, services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, especially via the Internet.” Clinical studies using patient recruitment and data collected via crowdsourcing is surely an … Continue reading →

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mHealth and Pharma: Opportunities for Patients and Industry

Posted on March 28, 2024 by

No greater is the opportunity for mHealth to break into mainstream healthcare than in partnerships with members of the pharmaceutical community. mHealth’s influence in the sector may be tentacle in the patient care area, the business process area, and the … Continue reading →

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Adoption of mHealth: Chicken or Egg?

Posted on March 21, 2024 by

There seems to be universal agreement among all stakeholders in health care that mHealth technologies will play a significant role in the future. The questions are how far into the future and how will they find their way to patients. … Continue reading →

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What is the Most Important $10M Digital Health Contest?

Posted on January 18, 2025 by

In the past 24 months, there has been a flurry of contests in digital health. The focus of these contests has invariably been the development of technologies to address one or more medical problems, whether they are in the diagnosis … Continue reading →

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Why Physicians are Needed in Digital Health

Posted on January 13, 2025 by

I hear from physicians on a daily basis who have left or who are thinking about leaving clinical practice and would like to enter the digital health sector. I will not discuss all the things one needs to consider when … Continue reading →

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Evidence-Based Medicine: Cracks in the Foundation?

Posted on January 5, 2025 by

The practice of medicine was once described as an art. Subsequently, large clinical trials and meta analyses became the foundation for what is known as evidence-based medicine. This has become not only what is accepted as standard of care and … Continue reading →

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