Category Archives: politics

Five Technologies to Benefit Most from the SCOTUS Decision

Posted on June 29, 2024 by

The SCOTUS decision regarding the ACA will bring millions of more covered lives into the healthcare system. There is no debate that this will significantly increase the cost of healthcare. This creates a more pressing need for cost-saving technologies. In … Continue reading →

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Five Ways the SCOTUS Decision on ACA Will Affect mHealth

Posted on June 28, 2024 by

The upholding of the majority and key points of the ACA by the Supreme Court was a monumental step in changing healthcare in the USA. It is reform. It is not the creative destruction that is necessary in … Continue reading →

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Five Ways to get Congress Moving on Mobile Medical App Guidance

Posted on June 12, 2024 by

As many of the readers of this blog know by now, the FDA draft guidance on mobile medical apps was released on July 19, 2011. While there are those who believe that FDA involvement in the regulation of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 27, 2024 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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Mobile mHealth

Posted on March 26, 2024 by

At first glance, the term ‘mobile mHealth’ might seem redundant. Consider a mobile van equipped not with physicians or nurses for the homeless, runaway youth, uninsured people above the poverty level, deployed servicemen, and the incarcerated, but with a medical … Continue reading →

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Will Politics Control mHealth?

Posted on January 3, 2025 by

On this political day in the USA, the beginning of the Presidential primary season, I thought it fitting to discuss politics and healthcare. When one first hears or sees the words politics and healthcare together, the most common thought to … Continue reading →

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