Category Archives: medical apps

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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#DigitalHealth: Five Fallacies of Remote Patient Monitoring

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

As defined in Wikipedia, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is: “a technology to enable monitoring of patients outside of conventional clinical settings (e.g. in the home), which may increase access to care and decrease healthcare delivery costs.”  I was a pioneer … Continue reading →

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#DigitalHealth: Patient Engagement Does Not Imply Patient Empowerment

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

Patient engagement is a phrase that is everywhere now. It is part of the vernacular in advocacy circles, government, health technology companies, and payers. It used to signal a new healthcare ecosystem in which the patient is more of a … Continue reading →

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Five Ways of Achieving Patient Engagement: Part 2: WITH Technology

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

In my previous post I discussed what I believe to be the most important paths to patient engagement without technology. I would like to now follow-up and discuss how technology can promote patient engagement.  This technology might be in the … Continue reading →

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Five Pitfalls of Designing a Medical App

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

There are an estimated 15,000 medical apps presently on the market and is expected to grow 25% per year according to one study.  There are issues which are common in the development of these apps and other categories of apps. … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Self-Insured Companies Need Mobile Health

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

According to 2011 research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute,  workers for companies with self-insured health plans make up 58.5% of workers with health coverage compared to 40.9% in 1998. The increase has been consistent over time. This percentage varied … 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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The Case for Efficacy Studies of Digital Health Technologies

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

As many readers of this blog know, I have long been a proponent of proven technology in the digital health space.  Probably the most obvious reason is to dispel the generalized notion that these technologies are flimsy.  The HHS Text4HealthTask … Continue reading →

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Measuring the ROI of Digital Health Technologies

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

     Alere’s purchase of Medapps prompts me to discuss a question posed to me daily, “What is the ROI of digital health technologies?”  Discussants in the Digital Health Linkedin Group were surprised at the purchase price of ‘no greater … Continue reading →

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Five Big Developments for Digital Health in 2013

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

I read with interest a few articles discussing predictions for digital health technologies for 2013.  One such amusing article in informationweek.com had some which were in more detailed described as  By the end of 2013, the implementation of such a … Continue reading →

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