Tag Archives: EMR

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 Essentials of a Population Management Digital Health Technology

Posted on October 3, 2016 by David Lee Scher, MD

Population health management (PHM) means different things to different people. It is a term which is in vogue now because of its injection into healthcare provider payment models and describes a strategy in which individual and patient subgroups are cared … Continue reading →

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Takeaways from The #DigitalHealth Conference 2013

Posted on November 18, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

I recently attended and moderated at my first Digital Health Conference in New York, hosted by the New York e Health Collaborative. I was impressed with the quality of the speakers but more impressed with how this year, in my … Continue reading →

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Five Realities That Define the Digital Health Technology Continuum

Posted on August 21, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

      The development of digital health technologies has and continues to involve people from diverse sectors: healthcare, telecommunications, IT, entrepreneurs, and patient advocates to name a few. The unique intersection of stakeholders in this space as well as trailblazing … Continue reading →

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Remote Patient Monitoring will Lead Value-Based Healthcare

Posted on April 24, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

Traditional health insurance reimbursement to providers (though payment is a more appropriate word) for healthcare services and products is at the root of our healthcare crisis.  Our traditional fee for service system in the USA rewards hospitals and providers for … Continue reading →

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Five Pitfalls of Designing a Medical App

Posted on January 31, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

There are an estimated 15,000 medical apps presently on the market and is expected to grow 25% per year according to one study.  There are issues which are common in the development of these apps and other categories of apps. … Continue reading →

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What Does the Ideal Hospital mHealth Strategy Look like?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

Most hospital IT administrators are presently dealing with Implementation of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use as well as planning for conversion to ICD-10 coding. Among more advanced institutions, the topic of the day is development of a mobile strategy. The … Continue reading →

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Data: Comparing Healthcare and Election 2012

Posted on November 5, 2012 by David Lee Scher, MD

This special post is not meant to be nor stimulate a partisan discussion on the impending election. It is a piece on how we view data differently, depending upon its context.  We are, one day prior to Election Day, programmed … Continue reading →

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Five Creative and Necessary Ways of Getting Medical Apps Adopted

Posted on July 9, 2012 by David Lee Scher, MD

Medical apps will likely become an important healthcare tool.  Once barriers such as reimbursement and regulatory issues are fully addressed there are many ways in which app developers and their commercial partners can penetrate the healthcare market.  However, there are … Continue reading →

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Five Ways the SCOTUS Decision on ACA Will Affect mHealth

Posted on June 28, 2012 by David Lee Scher, MD

          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 →

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