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Five Ways Patient Engagement Can Start in the Office
There are over 58 million references to ‘patient engagement’ if one conducts a Google search. The term has been diluted and changed in the past couple of years and has become a buzz phrase, used more from a business than … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, health insurance, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, healthcare vendors, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, patient advocacy, patient engagement, remote patient monitoring, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged caregiver, digital health, EHR, healthcare reform, healthcare vendor, HHS, medical apps, Medicare, mHealth, mobile health, nurses, patient engagement, S4PM, telehealth
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Five Reasons Why Medical Schools are Developing Their own Medical Apps
Revenue and market growth statistics about mobile medical apps are presented in the press almost daily. All of those in the industry, other stakeholders, and peripherally related businesses know that great strides have been made even in the last 12 … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, education, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, technology, wireless health
Tagged government IT, hcsm, healthcare economics, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, hospitals, Medicare, medicine, mHealth, mobile health, nurses, smartphone apps, technology, wireless health
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Can Digital Health Technologies Improve Health Literacy?
A recent article in the AMA News cites a 2003 health literacy study by the US Department of Education which surveyed more than 19,000 Americans. It found that over one-third had trouble reading and understanding basic medical information. Not surprisingly, … Continue reading
Adoption of mHealth: Chicken or Egg?
There seems to be universal agreement among all stakeholders in health care that mHealth technologies will play a significant role in the future. The questions are how far into the future and how will they find their way to patients. … Continue reading
Posted in clinical trials, digital health, education, FDA, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, government IT, hcsm, healthcare, healthcare reform, hospitals, mHealth, mobile health, nurses, S4PM, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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There is a Patient Attached to that Implantable Defibrillator!
“There are two things we are sure of, death and taxes. Now, if only we can get them in that order.”—Joey Adams “If Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.”—-Mel Brooks Q: “What’s the definition of … Continue reading
mHealth and Child Abuse
There has not been a more horrific scandal in the world of sports that I can remember than the child abuse scandal (the mainstream media calls it a sex abuse scandal) surrounding The Pennsylvania State University. Let it be said … Continue reading
Posted in child abuse, education, emergency medicine, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, technology, wireless health
Tagged child abuse, EHR, EMR, law, medicine, mHealth, mobile health, nurses, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Will mHealth Change the Role of Physician?
There are many benefits of mHealth technology to physicians It will increase patient engagement, it will provide data and input from patients on a continuum of time (versus the snapshot of office encounters), it is mobile, it will … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare IT, informatics, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, technology, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, nurses, physician assistants, S4PM, technology
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Why non-Physician Providers Will Love mHealth
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