Category Archives: FDA

Recent Healthcare Regulations and Relationship to Digital Technologies

Posted on October 9, 2024 by

Recently there have been significant developments with regards to healthcare regulatory requirements. One might look at the impacts on digital technologies depending upon whether they are mandates directed specifically at technology or aimed at clinical issues. I will touch on … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Proteus’ e-pill is the Holy Grail of Digital Health

Posted on September 4, 2024 by

This author has been writing about digital health technologies for a while. Regular readers know that it is rare for individual companies or products to be highlighted or even mentioned in my posts. However, the Proteus Digital Health (formerly Proteus … Continue reading →

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Five Ways to Evaluate Mobile Medical Apps via Research

Posted on August 23, 2024 by

There are many barriers to the adoption of health, fitness, and medical apps. A recent article summarizing the report from PWC’s Global Healthcare division states that adoption of mHealth technologies will lag consumer demand. I wholeheartedly agree with David Levy, … Continue reading →

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Five Healthcare Facts Both Candidates Can Agree on: Implications for Digital Health Tech

Posted on August 21, 2024 by

The current presidential campaign, in major part due to the entrance of Paul Ryan into the campaign, has propelled the cost of healthcare (versus a general discussion of the ACA) into the limelight. While this is not a bad thing, … Continue reading →

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Five Essentials to Having Your Hospital Go Mobile

Posted on August 13, 2024 by

While most hospitals’ IT priorities presently reside in achieving Meaningful Use and getting up to speed with ICD-10 (even though both have been moving deadline targets), there is another issue which is important to not only CIOs but to healthcare … Continue reading →

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Five Ways the Medical Apps Industry is Maturing

Posted on July 31, 2024 by

There are now over 13,000 health, fitness, and medical apps available. In a previous post I discussed “Five creative and necessary ways of getting medical apps adopted.” Specifically they were incorporating medical apps in informatics, utilization in schools for health … 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 Ways the SCOTUS Decision on ACA Will Affect mHealth

Posted on June 28, 2024 by

The upholding of the majority and key points of the ACA by the Supreme Court was a monumental step in changing healthcare in the USA. It is reform. It is not the creative destruction that is necessary in … 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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Adoption of mHealth: Can we see the Forest through the Trees?

Posted on May 27, 2024 by

In previous posts, I have highlighted many drivers and stakeholders (patient advocates, healthcare providers, insurers, hospitals, Pharma, and others) as key to the success of the adoption of digital health technologies (. There was a recently proposed amendment to the … Continue reading →

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