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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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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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Business Models of mHealth Vary with Technology

Posted on October 21, 2024 by

Wireless health technologies vary from apps geared towards wellness and fitness, to management of chronic diseases, patient monitoring, and telemedicine. One of the barriers to widespread adoption of mHealth is the establishment of a business model: who will … 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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Why non-Physician Providers Will Love mHealth

Posted on October 11, 2024 by

When I was in practice as a cardiac electrophysiologist not too long ago, I was on medical device company marketing advisory boards where executives would ask us “Do you think this is something docs would want?” Invariably some on the … 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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