Category Archives: wireless health

Remote Patient Monitoring will Lead Value-Based Healthcare

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Traditional health insurance reimbursement to providers (though payment is a more appropriate word) for healthcare services and products is at the root of our healthcare crisis.  Our traditional fee for service system in the USA rewards hospitals and providers for … Continue reading →

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#DigitalHealth: Remote Patient Monitoring, Part 2- Operational Models

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

In my previous post, I discussed some generalities of remote patient monitoring (RPM).  The current value of the RPM market is estimated at $10.6B. There are diverse clinical and non-clinical environments in which RPM might be utilized.  The healthcare ecosystem is … 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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#DigitalHealth: Patient Engagement Does Not Imply Patient Empowerment

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

Patient engagement is a phrase that is everywhere now. It is part of the vernacular in advocacy circles, government, health technology companies, and payers. It used to signal a new healthcare ecosystem in which the patient is more of a … Continue reading →

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Five Ways of Achieving Patient Engagement: Part 2: WITH Technology

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

In my previous post I discussed what I believe to be the most important paths to patient engagement without technology. I would like to now follow-up and discuss how technology can promote patient engagement.  This technology might be in the … Continue reading →

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Five Ways of Achieving Patient Engagement: Part 1: WITHOUT Technology

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

If one looks at communications revolving around healthcare these days, whether emanating from political, healthcare economics, clinical, or technology spaces, the term patient engagement is invariably found as one of the cornerstones of the conversation.  This is no more evident … Continue reading →

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Five Pitfalls of Designing a Medical App

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

There are an estimated 15,000 medical apps presently on the market and is expected to grow 25% per year according to one study.  There are issues which are common in the development of these apps and other categories of apps. … 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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Cardiac Patients will Benefit from Digital Health Technologies

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

Cardiovascular disease, specifically sudden cardiac death is the number one killer in the USA and most westernized countries. Many of the technologies which have been developed to address the problems of cardiac diseases have centered on expensive devices such as … Continue reading →

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