Category Archives: healthcare vendors

Five Imperatives of Patient-Centric Healthcare

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

In previous posts I discuss how patient-centric care differs from patent-centered care and how patient empowerment must precede patient engagement.  I would like now to delve into what I consider critical elements of patient-centric care. They all involve technology to … Continue reading →

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What Does the Ideal Hospital mHealth Strategy Look like?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

Most hospital IT administrators are presently dealing with Implementation of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use as well as planning for conversion to ICD-10 coding. Among more advanced institutions, the topic of the day is development of a mobile strategy. The … Continue reading →

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Business Models of Digital Health Technologies: Implications for ROI

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

In my last post I discussed problems with measuring the ROI of digital health technologies.  One of the problems is that the sector doesn’t fit neatly into traditional healthcare business models. There have been multiple articles  written about business models … Continue reading →

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Recent Healthcare Regulations and Relationship to Digital Technologies

Posted on October 9, 2012 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 Essentials to Having Your Hospital Go Mobile

Posted on August 13, 2012 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, 2012 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 Reasons Why mHealth Success is Tied to Healthcare IT

Posted on June 8, 2012 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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Big Data: The Ultimate Medical Textbook

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

There is little doubt that data will drive both the delivery and improvement of healthcare in the future.  “Big data” refers to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of typical database software tools to capture, store, manage, and analyze. … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Digital Health Technologies Need FDA Oversight

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

A draft proposal of the FDA guidelines for regulating mobile medical applications was released in July, 2011 (http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA-2011-D-0530-0001). 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 … Continue reading →

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How Do Digital Health Technologies Get to Older Patients?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

     Much of the digital health technologies on the market today are wellness products utilized by the relatively younger segment of the population.  Technologies which are focused on chronic diseases have found it much harder to reach their intended … Continue reading →

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