Category Archives: pharma

Patient Portal Adoption

Posted on December 14, 2012 by

Wikipedia defines patient portals as “…healthcare-related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone websites and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing web … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Proteus’ e-pill is the Holy Grail of Digital Health

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

This author has been writing about digital health technologies for a while.  Regular readers know that it is rare for individual companies or products to be highlighted or even mentioned in my posts.  However, the Proteus Digital Health (formerly Proteus … 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 Medical Apps Will Want to Undergo Certification

Posted on July 13, 2012 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 Reasons Why Physicians Will Resist Prescribing Medical Apps

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

The Jackson Coker Special Report on Apps, Doctors, and Digital Devices, originally published in October 2011, was featured in an online article today with the headline “80% of Doctors Use Smart phones and Medical Apps in Everyday Medical Practice.”  If … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Digital Health Technologies Need FDA Oversight

Posted on June 12, 2012 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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Five Reasons Why Pharma Needs Mobile Apps

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

     While Pharma companies are dabbling in social media, the importance of a strong presence in mobile health technologies cannot be ignored.  Here are some reasons: 1.   Mobile apps are not a passing fad and Pharma needs to be … Continue reading →

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Adoption of mHealth: Can we see the Forest through the Trees?

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

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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The Medical App is a Patient Advocacy Tool

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

In his book ‘The Creative Destruction of Medicine’, Dr. Eric Topol highlights a few areas important to the transformation of medicine; wireless sensors, genomics, information systems, mobile connectivity, the Internet, social networking, and computing power.  I believe that all of … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced Clinical Studies: A New Paradigm in Health Care?

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

The Miriam-Webster defines crowdsourcing as: “the practice of obtaining participants, services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, especially via the Internet.” Clinical studies using patient recruitment and data collected via crowdsourcing is surely an … Continue reading →

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