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Five Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs

Posted on October 28, 2016 by David Lee Scher, MD

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 Physicians Will Resist Prescribing Medical Apps

Posted on July 2, 2012 by David Lee Scher, MD

The Jackson Coker Special Report on Apps, Doctors, and Digital Devices, originally published in October 2011, was featured in an online article today with the headline “80% of Doctors Use Smart phones and Medical Apps in Everyday Medical Practice.”  If … Continue reading →

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Five Ways mHealth Can Decrease Hospital Readmissions

Posted on December 16, 2011 by David Lee Scher, MD

Patients who are discharged from the hospital after a heart attack, congestive heart failure, or pneumonia have high rates of short-term readmissions. As per a provision in the Affordable Care Act, a Medicare patient with one of these diagnoses who … Continue reading →

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Can Moneyball Become Moneycare?: How Predictive Informatics can Make mHealth a Success

Posted on September 30, 2011 by David Lee Scher, MD

     I knew the story of Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s long before I saw the movie.  As an avid baseball fan (Yankee fan since age 5, without apology), I followed the story of how informatics were used … Continue reading →

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