Will Pre-Cert Increase the Advantage of Big Companies? (UPDATE)
The impact of FDA's digital health Pre-Cert program has yet to be fully seen. There is much debate...
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Category: Mobile Health
Usability Heuristic Test of Mobile Fitness Application
I just finished a master’s in healthcare informatics and through that process learned quite a few...
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Interstitial Markets: Connecting Healthcare Communities (UPDATED)
In the cottage industry that is health care, there are many interstitial spaces between health...
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The Best Way to Prepare to Text Physician Orders
How We Got Here Back in May 2016, the Joint Commission (JC) issued an update in their Perspectives...
Read MoreFrom Pilot to Policy: Lessons from e-Health Deployed at Scale
As mentioned in previous posts, the United4Health project was intended to test the deployment at...
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Case Study: Sensor Selection for Remote Monitoring
In a previous blog post, I highlighted general principles for implementing and scaling systems to...
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4 Ways Health Care Is Different
As a $1.7 trillion market with $3.24 trillion in health care expenditures in 2015, the US health...
Read MoreFDA Addresses Mobile Medical Apps
As medical applications for mobile devices have proliferated, regulatory questions have proliferated nearly as fast, at least in some quarters. The key questions are what kinds of apps are medical devices, and among those,...
Read MoreHome Use of Medical Devices Challenges FDA
Medical Devices Today has a good post on potential safety and effectiveness issues surrounding medical devices where home use by patients is outside the scope if intended use. "Although manufacturers need FDA approval to market...
Read MoreThe Paradox of Patient Self Management
The father of HU (or at least the man who coined the term), Mike Barrett, spoke on the paradox of patient self-management. His presentation was titled, "Don't Ask: Information Aversion and Patient Self-Management." Behavior...
Read MoreRemote Monitoring and Disease Management Gets Boost from Dyson
Health care guru and blogger Matthew Holt reports on Esther Dyson's comments at the CDHCC conference. I asked her what VCs should be investing in. She suggested management of the chronically ill, such as compliance reminders,...
Read MoreNew Remote Monitoring Market Study Released
Spyglass Consulting has released a new market study on remote monitoring called, Trends in Remote Patient Monitoring. Spyglass creates great market studies that illuminate markets just as they're getting hot. It seems that...
Read MoreCan State Medicaid Programs Drive Remote Monitoring Reimbursement?
The state of Indiana will begin providing Medicaid reimbursement for telemedicine consultations starting May 1, 2006."It is definitely exciting news. I think that this policy will go a long way toward increasing adoption among...
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