Category Archives: digital health

Five Reasons why Medical Apps Will Want to Undergo Certification

Posted on July 13, 2024 by

A draft of standards for a health and medical app certification program was released yesterday by Happtique. As a matter of disclosure I am proud to have been the Chair of the panel that drafted these standards. The standards are … Continue reading →

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Five Creative and Necessary Ways of Getting Medical Apps Adopted

Posted on July 9, 2024 by

Medical apps will likely become an important healthcare tool. Once barriers such as reimbursement and regulatory issues are fully addressed there are many ways in which app developers and their commercial partners can penetrate the healthcare market. However, there are … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Physicians Will Resist Prescribing Medical Apps

Posted on July 2, 2024 by

The Jackson Coker Special Report on Apps, Doctors, and Digital Devices, originally published in October 2011, was featured in an online article today with the headline “80% of Doctors Use Smart phones and Medical Apps in Everyday Medical Practice.” If … Continue reading →

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Five Technologies to Benefit Most from the SCOTUS Decision

Posted on June 29, 2024 by

The SCOTUS decision regarding the ACA will bring millions of more covered lives into the healthcare system. There is no debate that this will significantly increase the cost of healthcare. This creates a more pressing need for cost-saving technologies. In … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why mHealth is Not Going Away (Despite the Hype-Haters)

Posted on June 18, 2024 by

One feels almost assaulted by financial projections of the mHealth market every day. Extrapolations from the increasing use of smartphones, the use of iPads by physicians, the adoption of patient portals by insurers, research of the Internet for medical purposes … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Mobile Health Apps Will Never Replace Doctors

Posted on June 14, 2024 by

A recent post in the DailyDealMedia, caught my attention. It was titled “Uprising in Mobile Health Care: Could Medical Apps Replace Doctors?” The theme of technology versus humanistic aspects of medicine has been the subject of debate for many decades, … Continue reading →

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Five Ways to get Congress Moving on Mobile Medical App Guidance

Posted on June 12, 2024 by

As many of the readers of this blog know by now, the FDA draft guidance on mobile medical apps was released on July 19, 2011. While there are those who believe that FDA involvement in the regulation of … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Digital Health Technologies Need FDA Oversight

Posted on June 12, 2024 by

A draft proposal of the FDA guidelines for regulating mobile medical applications was released in July, 2011. In response, the mHealth Regulatory Coalition sent detailed comments on the proposal (http://mhealthregulatorycoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MRC-Comments-on-FDA-Draft-MMA-Guidance.pdf). There was a recent piece in the Washington Times “The … Continue reading →

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Five Ways to get Physicians to Adopt Digital Health Technologies

Posted on June 11, 2024 by

1. Make it worth doing. Until the fee for service reimbursement model goes away, the request to adopt any new technology by physicians is met with the question, “Is this a reimbursable service?” This is a sad but true state … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why mHealth Success is Tied to Healthcare IT

Posted on June 8, 2024 by

In his book The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Dr. Eric Topol describes the importance of what he calls a superconvergence of six areas of digital technology (wireless sensors, genomics, information systems, mobile connectivity, the Internet and social networking, and the … Continue reading →

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