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Why Online Patient Communities are Better than Real Life Support Groups

Posted on July 11, 2024 by

A support group has many potential benefits, some of which include improving coping skills, reducing anxiety, depression, isolation, ignorance about the condition and others. Online patient communities (OPCs) are a recent phenomenon. Some are open (with respect to type of … Continue reading →

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Five Benefits of Online Patient Communities

Posted on June 20, 2024 by

If one searches for ‘online patient communities’ over 19 million Internet sites are found. Online patient communities (OPCs) may exist as subgroups of social media sites, non-profit organizations, and increasingly as part of websites of healthcare organizations and … Continue reading →

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Five Ways Rare Diseases can Benefit from Digital Health Technology

Posted on January 11, 2025 by

Rare diseases present special challenges for patients, families and clinicians alike. Symptoms may be mistaken or assumed to be more common ailments. There is not enough searchable material online for lay people, as most of the data and information might be … Continue reading →

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Patient Satisfaction is not Patient Advocacy: How Digital Health Technology can Help

Posted on August 6, 2024 by

Editor’s note: While the format of this piece is doesn’t conform to the ‘five points’ you normally see, the ties to clinical and digital remain. We will return to the usual format in the next offering. Patient advocacy and patient … Continue reading →

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Five Mobile Health Technologies Providers Need to Implement NOW

Posted on July 20, 2024 by

This marks my first post since the sudden death of my chronically ill mother last month. The journey as her caregiver solidified what I believe should be priorities for the adoption of digital health technologies. There are currently many mobile … Continue reading →

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Five Ways Professional Medical Societies Can Speed the Adoption of Mobile Digital Health Tools

Posted on June 3, 2024 by

There have been many stated roles of professional medical societies, including standardization of care (best practice), promoting public health, and improving leadership in medicine. All of these roles can be facilitated with digital health technologies. Most professional societies are recognizing … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why the Future of Clinical Trials Utilizing Mobile Technology is Here

Posted on April 8, 2024 by

In a previous post I discussed both the merits and needs for the use of mobile technologies in clinical trials. Recruiting patients via social media is now a reality and has been a topic of discussion in many forums, including … Continue reading →

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A New Paradigm for Digital Pharma: The Digital KOL

Posted on April 2, 2024 by

A digital strategy is important for Pharma to remain relevant. The need to connect with both patients and providers via digital formats and via mobile devices has been dictated by the successful penetration of these types of marketing, educational, and … Continue reading →

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Five Imperatives of User Experience (UX) Design in Mobile Health Technology

Posted on February 17, 2025 by

The Wiki definition of UX design is “the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, ease of use, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and the product.” UX design success in mobile health technologies depends … Continue reading →

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Why Home Care is More Important than Readmission Rates: Implications for Digital Health Technologies

Posted on January 29, 2025 by

The Affordable Care Act added a section to the Social Security Act known which established the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Under the new fines as described in an article by Kaiser Health News, three-quarters of eligible hospitals will be fined … Continue reading →

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