Category Archives: pharma

How mHealth Will Succeed: Recommendations From the WHO

Posted on November 21, 2024 by

The strongly emerging sector of healthcare is quickly becoming a topic of national and international organizations. It is being examined from business, regulatory, and healthcare stakeholders. As with all new types of technologies that are being considered by payers, patients, … Continue reading →

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mHealth and HealthcareIT: Who’s Your Healthcare Data’s Daddy?

Posted on November 2, 2024 by

Healtcare IT and wireless health technologies will be producing in the coming years an almost immeasurable amount of data derived from electronic health records (EHRs), smart phones, body sensors, and other ‘connected’ devices. The ownership of this type of data … Continue reading →

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mHealth is Poised for Success

Posted on October 19, 2024 by

Much has been said about the need for wireless health technologies and their potential for cost savings and improved patient outcomes. Some barriers for successful implementation involve education of the public, designing attractive business models, and obtaining investor … Continue reading →

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Mobile Health Technology: Solution to Medication non-Adherence

Posted on October 12, 2024 by

The term non-adherence is presently preferred over non-compliance when referring to medication use, as the latter has traditionally implied only willful behavior in medical jargon. Here are statistics from Dr. Lars Osterberg, a noted authority on the subject: … Continue reading →

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Benefits of Wireless Health Technology at End-of-Life

Posted on October 5, 2024 by

Medicare spending for a patient’s last year of life accounts for a staggering one-quarter of the national Medicare annual budget (abstract cited) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01082.x/abstract. An article in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, ‘Regional Variation … Continue reading →

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Four Ways That Mobile Health Technology Can Help Healthcare Vendors

Posted on October 4, 2024 by

The landscape of healthcare is changing quickly, no more so than in the vendor-purchaser arena. GPOs are going away. ACOs are coming (whether they are liked or not, in some form or another). Hospitals are beginning to consolidate once again … Continue reading →

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