Category Archives: healthcare economics

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 Reasons Why Medical Schools are Developing Their own Medical Apps

Posted on August 1, 2024 by

Revenue and market growth statistics about mobile medical apps are presented in the press almost daily. All of those in the industry, other stakeholders, and peripherally related businesses know that great strides have been made even in the last 12 … Continue reading →

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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 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 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 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 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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