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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology
Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement … Continue reading
Posted in #digitalhealth, digital health, digital health technology, education, FDA, fitness, healthcare economics, healthcare reform, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, patient advocacy, patient engagement, pharma, remote patient monitoring, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged digital health, hcsm, healthcare finance, healthcare reform, hospitals, Medicare, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth
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Five Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs
Registries have traditionally been viewed as static repositories of data to be reviewed in a summary fashion after a predetermined time period. The expanding need for drilled down relevant data has led to the development of creative sophisticated data analytics … Continue reading
Posted in #digitalhealth, analytics, clinical trials, digital health, digital health technology, EHR, FDA, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, healthcare vendors, informatics, mHealth, mobile health, statistics, technology, telehealth
Tagged #digitalhealth, #hcldr, digital health, EHR, EMR, healthcare, healthcare economics, healthcare IT, Medicare, mobile health, pharma
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Five Reasons Why Digital Health Needs Patient Reported Outcomes
According to the National Quality Forum, patient reported outcomes or patient reported outcomes measures (PROs) can be defined as “any report of the status of a patient’s health condition that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s … Continue reading
Posted in #digitalhealth, analytics, clinical trials, digital health, EHR, FDA, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, patient engagement, pharma, remote patient monitoring, technology, telehealth
Tagged #digitalhealth, #hcldr, ACOs, clinical trials, FDA, healthcare economics, healthcare finance, healthcare IT, hospitals, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, technology, telehealth
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My Five Asks of Digital Health
Digital health is experiencing what I would characterize as its adolescence. The rudimentary pieces are in place for adoption; Awareness of the technologies, the progressing maturation of mobile technologies, realization of its critical need in the marketplace, interest by large … Continue reading
Posted in #digitalhealth, analytics, digital health, digital health technology, EHR, fitness, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, healthcare vendors, informatics, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, patient advocacy, patient engagement, pharma, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth
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Five Mobile Health Technologies Providers Need to Implement NOW
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
Posted in clinical trials, digital health, digital health technology, EHR, FDA, health insurance, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, healthcare vendors, informatics, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, patient engagement, remote patient monitoring, smartphone apps, technology
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Five Ways Analytics in Digital Health Tools Will Change Healthcare
There are many reasons cited why digital technologies hope to improve of patient care as well as the state of healthcare itself. They include improving efficiencies, patient safety, and cost. However, as has been seen with the most ubiquitous face … Continue reading
Posted in analytics, digital health, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, patient engagement, pharma, remote patient monitoring, sudden cardiac arrest, technology
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Five Reasons Why Physician IT Champions are Needed
It has been 5 years since the passage of the HITECH Act portion of the Affordable Care Act. The purpose of HITECH was “…to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.” While the result of this legislation … Continue reading
Five Ways Mobile Health Technologies can Change Healthcare Now
There is growing healthy skepticism about the past promises of mobile technologies. Issues concerning safety after the release of the FDA Guidance of mobile medical apps, privacy and security, and efficacy. Followers of the sector are poised for the rubber … Continue reading
Posted in clinical trials, FDA, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, healthcare vendors, informatics, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, remote patient monitoring, smartphone apps, telehealth
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Five Differences between Consumer and Patient Sensor Technologies
The technology industry has been buzzing of late because of the big players entering the wearable sensor market. We are very familiar with Misfit and Fitbit for some time. Others investing into the sector include Intel, Microsoft, Apple and Samsung. … Continue reading
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Tagged ACOs, digital health, EHR, hcsm, healthcare economics, healthcare reform, Medicare, medicine, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, technology, wireless health
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