Category Archives: education

Five VALUE Offerings of the Ideal Health Management Company

Posted on February 10, 2017 by davidleescher

     In previous posts I discussed the importance of population health management and the essentials of ideal population management digital tech.  One of my tenets as a consultant in digital health is that technology itself is not a solution.  A … Continue reading →

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

Posted on November 28, 2016 by davidleescher

  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 Requirements for the Adoption of Genomics as a Digital Health Tool

Posted on October 16, 2015 by davidleescher

That digital health technologies will be adopted to address the ills of healthcare systems around the world is a foregone conclusion. The challenges of the cost of chronic disease burden, physician and patient dissatisfaction While awareness of digital health is … Continue reading →

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Five Ways Physicians Can Change Patient Behavior

Posted on January 15, 2014 by davidleescher

It is no secret that one of the best ways towards better health management is a good physician-patient relationship. There needs to be buy-in from both participants to shared decision-making. One might object to the title of this post, stating … Continue reading →

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Five Things New Patients Think Which Surprise Me

Posted on January 14, 2014 by davidleescher

     Patients now often enter a physician’s office with preconceived notions. All the parties involved are cognizant of one thing: time is limited. The patient is hoping their issue is addressed (hopefully, the provider often fears it is not … Continue reading →

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Five Benefits of Online Patient Communities

Posted on June 20, 2013 by davidleescher

           If one searches for ‘online patient communities’ over 19 million Internet sites are found.  Online patient communities (OPCs) may exist as subgroups of social media sites, non-profit organizations, and increasingly as part of websites of healthcare organizations and … Continue reading →

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Synergistic Impacts of Healthcare and Social Media: An Observational Study

Posted on May 30, 2013 by davidleescher

There have been many articles written on the impact of social media on healthcare.  Likewise, healthcare is transforming social media into a ‘place’ to obtain information on specific diseases, creating patient and provider support in online communities likePatientsLikeMe and  Treatment … Continue reading →

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Five Imperatives of Patient-Centric Healthcare

Posted on April 3, 2013 by davidleescher

In previous posts I discuss how patient-centric care differs from patent-centered care and how patient empowerment must precede patient engagement.  I would like now to delve into what I consider critical elements of patient-centric care. They all involve technology to … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Medical Schools are Developing Their own Medical Apps

Posted on August 1, 2012 by davidleescher

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 →

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Five Ways the Medical Apps Industry is Maturing

Posted on July 31, 2012 by davidleescher

There are now over 13,000 health, fitness, and medical apps available.  In a previous post I discussed “Five creative and necessary ways of getting medical apps adopted.”  Specifically they were incorporating medical apps in informatics, utilization in schools for health … Continue reading →

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