Category Archives: pharma

Crowdsourced Clinical Studies: A New Paradigm in Health Care?

Posted on March 30, 2024 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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mHealth and Pharma: Opportunities for Patients and Industry

Posted on March 28, 2024 by

No greater is the opportunity for mHealth to break into mainstream healthcare than in partnerships with members of the pharmaceutical community. mHealth’s influence in the sector may be tentacle in the patient care area, the business process area, and the … Continue reading →

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Big Data: The Ultimate Medical Textbook

Posted on February 28, 2025 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 Events Signaling the Arrival of mHealth

Posted on February 20, 2025 by

There have been many predictions of when mHealth technologies will break through in a big way. I will mention what I consider a few important recent events which are indicative of mHealth technology’s ‘arrival’ in the mainstream healthcare arena. 1. The … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Digital Health Technologies Need FDA Oversight

Posted on February 14, 2025 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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Decreasing Digital and Health Divides

Posted on January 10, 2025 by

With the opening of the Digital Health Summit as part of the Computer Electronics Show today, I am embracing the term digital health in substitution of mHealth. This is a term which embraces more than the portability or wireless mode … Continue reading →

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Evidence-Based Medicine: Cracks in the Foundation?

Posted on January 5, 2025 by

The practice of medicine was once described as an art. Subsequently, large clinical trials and meta analyses became the foundation for what is known as evidence-based medicine. This has become not only what is accepted as standard of care and … Continue reading →

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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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