Category Archives: medical devices

#DigitalHealth: Remote Patient Monitoring Part 3: The Ideal RPM System

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Remote patient monitoring may serve patients who are in the post-acute care phase of recovery from a hospitalization as well as those with chronic diseases.  Monitoring may consist of communication tools or measurements of medication adherence, glucose measurements for diabetics, … 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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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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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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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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The Future of Medical Apps: A Call to Arms For the End of Flimsy Science

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

A recent article in the Washington Post raises concerns about the legitimacy of mobile health apps.  As Chair of the committee which developed Draft Standards for the Happtique App Certification Program, I applaud the author for taking a critical look … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 21, 2012 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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