Category Archives: health insurance

Five Creative and Necessary Ways of Getting Medical Apps Adopted

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 Technologies to Benefit Most from the SCOTUS Decision

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 Ways the SCOTUS Decision on ACA Will Affect mHealth

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

As many of the readers of this blog know by now, the FDA draft guidance on mobile medical apps was released on July 19, 2011.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?

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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Five Reasons Why Insurers are Key to mHealth Adoption

I have talked about some of the major stakeholders in mHealth adoption, what technology companies need to consider when developing and marketing to them, why mhealth will be important to the various stakeholders, and why the stakeholders are, in turn, … Continue reading

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