Category Archives: media coverage

Why Home Care is More Important than Readmission Rates: Implications for Digital Health Technologies

Posted on January 29, 2015 by David Lee Scher, MD

The Affordable Care Act added a section to the Social Security Act known which established the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Under the new fines as described in an article by Kaiser Health News, three-quarters of eligible hospitals will be fined … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Why Physicians Should be in Social Media

Posted on July 8, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

In November, 2011 the AMA published a report on Professionalism in the use of Social Media.  A brief summary of the paper  was published in June, 2010.  The issues addressed by the AMA are reasonable and practical in my view. … Continue reading →

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Synergistic Impacts of Healthcare and Social Media: An Observational Study

Posted on May 30, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

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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Adoption of mHealth: Can we see the Forest through the Trees?

Posted on May 27, 2012 by David Lee Scher, MD

In previous posts, I have highlighted many drivers and stakeholders (patient advocates, healthcare providers, insurers, hospitals, Pharma, and others) as key to the success of the adoption of digital health technologies (. There was a recently proposed amendment to the … Continue reading →

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Is Telemedicine Good or Bad For Us?

Posted on April 21, 2012 by David Lee Scher, MD

Telemedicine, as defined by the American Telemedicine Association is: “the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients’ health status.”   Multiple factors are driving the attraction of telemedicine.  The ACA paving the … Continue reading →

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Decreasing Digital and Health Divides

Posted on January 10, 2012 by David Lee Scher, MD

With the opening of the Digital Health Summit as part of the Computer Electronics Show today, I am embracing the term digital health in substitution of mHealth.  This is a term which embraces more than the portability or wireless mode … Continue reading →

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Five Pathways to mHealth Education

Posted on December 28, 2011 by David Lee Scher, MD

1.    Points of Contact.  The most effective ways to educate patients about wellness and health is during a face to face encounter.  It applies to mHealth as well. They have your (the provider’s) attention and vice versa (this is not … Continue reading →

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Do Physicians Love or Hate mHealth?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by David Lee Scher, MD

        I have noticed some seemingly opposite interpretations (at first glance) about the enthusiasm for mHealth technologies by physicians. One article appearing in Informationweek.com  on November 21st “Doctors Slow To Embrace Telemedicine, Cloud Computing”(http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/mobile-wireless/231903483?queryText=nicole+lewis) .  Another article appearing on November … Continue reading →

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