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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

Posted on June 14, 2017 by davidleescher

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use.  The entrepreneurial enthusiasm for the healthcare space is evident by the volume of digital health … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

Posted on April 28, 2017 by davidleescher

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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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 Ways Digital Technologies can Address Cancer

Posted on February 2, 2017 by davidleescher

There have been remarkable strides in prevention and treatment of disease in the past 5 decades.  Few have rivaled targeted cancer therapies based on digital health, specifically genomics in scope and breadth.  I’d like to touch on a few ways … 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 Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs

Posted on October 28, 2016 by davidleescher

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 Reasons Why Digital Health Needs Patient Reported Outcomes

Posted on September 1, 2016 by davidleescher

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 →

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My Five Asks of Digital Health

Posted on April 29, 2016 by davidleescher

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 Mobile Health Technologies Providers Need to Implement NOW

Posted on July 20, 2015 by davidleescher

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 →

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Five Ways Analytics in Digital Health Tools Will Change Healthcare

Posted on February 8, 2015 by davidleescher

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 →

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