The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates. In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy. RFID and other advanced digital technologies have been developed to help in this regard. Improving the electronic medical record (EHR).

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. There are many considerations when EHRs collide. Other non-clinical considerations.

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mHealth Insight

MARCH 28, 2018

mHealth Insights. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before” All signs show it is eg. Health systems were reluctant to share what data existed, seeing it as a valuable proprietary asset. “Those obstacles have now mostly melted away.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). mHealth Insights. health care spending, 3 so the promise of mobile health is especially attractive.” “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). The blurring of mobile and digital into overall business process is a meta-trend for the global economy, and certainly for the health care ecosystem.

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