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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health

Posted on August 7, 2017 by

The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan.  This plan was both important and necessary.  Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. Digital … Continue reading →

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

The most discussed issues in healthcare today are cost savings and access to care.  There is no denying their rightful preeminence in the public discourse.  Something which has received more attention in the past but has been surpassed by the … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

Posted on April 28, 2017 by

Healthcare consolidation in the form of mergers and acquisitions has been taking place for a number of years.  It is seen on both the provider and payer sides.  In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and … Continue reading →

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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on January 30, 2017 by

The statistics related to Alzheimer’s disease (Ad) are astonishing. According to The Alzheimer’s Association there are over 5 million Americans with Ad. It is the sixth leading cause of death. More than 15 million caregivers provided an estimated 18.1 billion … Continue reading →

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

Posted on November 28, 2016 by

  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 →

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Five Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs

Posted on October 28, 2016 by

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 →

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Five Essentials of a Population Management Digital Health Technology

Posted on October 3, 2016 by

Population health management (PHM) means different things to different people. It is a term which is in vogue now because of its injection into healthcare provider payment models and describes a strategy in which individual and patient subgroups are cared … Continue reading →

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My Five Asks of Digital Health

Posted on April 29, 2016 by

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 →

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Five Digital Health Implications of the Most Important Report You Never Heard of

Posted on March 28, 2016 by

One of the most discussed barriers to the adoption of mobile health technologies is the Digital Divide between the elderly and the rest of society. Technology may support initiatives encouraging aging at home.  There are many reasons why older persons do not use … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons why the End of Meaningful Use is the Beginning of Meaningful Digital Health Information

Posted on February 15, 2016 by

The end of the Meaningful Use incentive program will turn the healthcare IT focus from the regulator to the patient. Continue reading →

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