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Patient Satisfaction is not Patient Advocacy: How Digital Health Technology can Help
Editor’s note: While the format of this piece is doesn’t conform to the ‘five points’ you normally see, the ties to clinical and digital remain. We will return to the usual format in the next offering. Patient advocacy and patient … Continue reading
Posted in communications, digital health, digital health technology, health insurance, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, politics, technology
Tagged #digitalhealth, #hcldr, caregiver, digital health, EHR, government IT, hcsm, Medicare, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, technology
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Adoption of mHealth Technologies: UK vs USA
The Secretary of Health for the UK, Jeremy Hunt recently said “…while mobile broadband technology is revolutionising most walks of life, there is a problem once people encounter the relatively antiquated systems of the NHS.” The UK has developed an … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, politics, technology, telehealth
Tagged EHR, government IT, hcsm, healthcare economics, healthcare finance, Medicare, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Five Healthcare Facts Both Candidates Can Agree on: Implications for Digital Health Tech
The current presidential campaign, in major part due to the entrance of Paul Ryan into the campaign, has propelled the cost of healthcare (versus a general discussion of the ACA) into the limelight. While this is not a bad thing, … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, Election 2012, FDA, health insurance, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, politics, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, government IT, hcsm, healthcare, healthcare economics, healthcare finance, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, hospitals, Medicare, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, technology, wireless health
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Five Technologies to Benefit Most from the SCOTUS Decision
The SCOTUS decision regarding the ACA will bring millions of more covered lives into the healthcare system. There is no debate that this will significantly increase the cost of healthcare. This creates a more pressing need for cost-saving technologies. In … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, Election 2012, health insurance, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, mHealth, mobile health, politics, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, government IT, hcsm, healthcare economics, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Five Ways the SCOTUS Decision on ACA Will Affect mHealth
The upholding of the majority and key points of the ACA by the Supreme Court was a monumental step in changing healthcare in the USA. It is reform. It is not the creative destruction that is necessary in … Continue reading
Posted in FDA, health insurance, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, politics, technology, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, EMR, FDA, government IT, hcsm, hospitals, mHealth, S4PM, technology
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Five Ways to get Congress Moving on Mobile Medical App Guidance
As many of the readers of this blog know by now, the FDA draft guidance on mobile medical apps was released on July 19, 2011. While there are those who believe that FDA involvement in the regulation of … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, Election 2012, FDA, health insurance, healthcare reform, medical apps, mHealth, mobile health, politics, smartphone apps
Tagged EHR, hcsm, healthcare reform, Medicare, mHealth, S4PM, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Adoption of mHealth: Can we see the Forest through the Trees?
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
Posted in digital health, Election 2012, FDA, health insurance, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, media coverage, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, pharma, politics, technology, wireless health
Tagged caregiver, hcsm, healthcare finance, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, hospitals, mHealth, mobile health, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Mobile mHealth
At first glance, the term ‘mobile mHealth’ might seem redundant. Consider a mobile van equipped not with physicians or nurses for the homeless, runaway youth, uninsured people above the poverty level, deployed servicemen, and the incarcerated, but with a medical … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, healthcare economics, homeless, mHealth, mobile health clinic, politics, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged hcsm, HHS, homeless, medicine, mHealth, mobile health, mobile health clinic, prisons, S4PM, shelters, smartphone apps, technology, wireless health
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