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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Five Pitfalls of Designing a Medical App
There are an estimated 15,000 medical apps presently on the market and is expected to grow 25% per year according to one study. There are issues which are common in the development of these apps and other categories of apps. … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, FDA, informatics, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged EHR, EMR, hcsm, healthcare IT, hospitals, Meaningful Use, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Five Reasons Why Self-Insured Companies Need Mobile Health
According to 2011 research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, workers for companies with self-insured health plans make up 58.5% of workers with health coverage compared to 40.9% in 1998. The increase has been consistent over time. This percentage varied … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, fitness, health insurance, healthcare economics, healthcare reform, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, smartphone apps, technology, wireless health
Tagged caregiver, healthcare economics, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology
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What Does the Ideal Hospital mHealth Strategy Look like?
Most hospital IT administrators are presently dealing with Implementation of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use as well as planning for conversion to ICD-10 coding. Among more advanced institutions, the topic of the day is development of a mobile strategy. The … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, Healthcare IT, healthcare vendors, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, EMR, healthcare IT, Medicare, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, telehealth, wireless health
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Cardiac Patients will Benefit from Digital Health Technologies
Cardiovascular disease, specifically sudden cardiac death is the number one killer in the USA and most westernized countries. Many of the technologies which have been developed to address the problems of cardiac diseases have centered on expensive devices such as … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, Implantable Defibrillators, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, sudden cardiac arrest, wireless health
Tagged cardiology, caregiver, hcsm, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, implantable defibrillators, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, wireless health
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The Case for Efficacy Studies of Digital Health Technologies
As many readers of this blog know, I have long been a proponent of proven technology in the digital health space. Probably the most obvious reason is to dispel the generalized notion that these technologies are flimsy. The HHS Text4HealthTask … Continue reading
Posted in clinical trials, digital health, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, hcsm, healthcare, healthcare economics, healthcare IT, HHS, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Business Models of Digital Health Technologies: Implications for ROI
In my last post I discussed problems with measuring the ROI of digital health technologies. One of the problems is that the sector doesn’t fit neatly into traditional healthcare business models. There have been multiple articles written about business models … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, FDA, Healthcare IT, healthcare vendors, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, hcsm, healthcare, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, Medicare, medicine, mHealth, smartphone apps, telehealth, wireless health
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Measuring the ROI of Digital Health Technologies
Alere’s purchase of Medapps prompts me to discuss a question posed to me daily, “What is the ROI of digital health technologies?” Discussants in the Digital Health Linkedin Group were surprised at the purchase price of ‘no greater … Continue reading