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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health
The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. This plan was both important and necessary. Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. Digital … Continue reading
Posted in #digitalhealth, analytics, communications, digital health, digital health technology, FDA, Healthcare IT, healthcare vendors, informatics, IT security, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, remote patient monitoring, technology, telehealth, Uncategorized
Tagged apps, digital health, entrepreneur, FDA, hIPAA, informatics, medical apps, medicine, mobile health, technology
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Why Clinical Trials Need Mobile Health Tools: Can CROs be Replaced?
I have previously written why mobile technologies need clinical trials. I would now like to discuss why clinical trials need mobile technology. For readers not familiar with clinical research, a CRO (clinical research organization) is “…an organization that provides support … Continue reading
Posted in clinical trials, digital health, FDA, health insurance, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, pharma, remote patient monitoring, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, caregiver, clinical trials, digital health, EHR, FDA, healthcare IT, hospitals, informatics, Medicare, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, telehealth
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Crowdsourced Clinical Studies: A New Paradigm in Health Care?
The Miriam-Webster defines crowdsourcing as: “the practice of obtaining participants, services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, especially via the Internet.” Clinical studies using patient recruitment and data collected via crowdsourcing is surely an … Continue reading
Five Reasons Why Patients with Implantable Defibrillators Deserve Their Data
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009. The objective of Measure 12/15 of Meaningful Use regulations … Continue reading
Can Moneyball Become Moneycare?: How Predictive Informatics can Make mHealth a Success
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