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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

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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“Online consultations in general practice: the questions to ask” RCGP Report.

mHealth Insight

The Royal College of General Practitioners has been “working with a group of Patients, GPs, health service managers and academics to develop a set of questions that you might want to consider if you are a patient, clinician, practice or commissioner” interested in using these online consulting services. mHealth Insight.

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“Online consultations in general practice: the questions to ask” RCGP Report.

mHealth Insight

The Royal College of General Practitioners has been “working with a group of Patients, GPs, health service managers and academics to develop a set of questions that you might want to consider if you are a patient, clinician, practice or commissioner” interested in using these online consulting services. mHealth Insight.

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Harvard Business Review: Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry

mHealth Insight

mHealth Insights. Most efforts to liberate and exchange health data have focused on getting doctors and hospitals to share it with one another. Frustration has increased interest in a very different approach to data sharing: Give patients their data, and let them control its destiny.

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Apple’s Health Records App: A Ripple or a Roar?

mHealth Insight

This blog post by Dr Joe Kvedar reflecting on Apple’s Health Record announcement makes for interesting reading ( I’m very optimistic about what this means for Patients and Carers ). mHealth Insight. But I can’t help but recall similar attempts to create health data repositories for patients on their mobile devices.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

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.” Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., More than 40% of U.S. “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

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. I’ve covered this influential document here in Health Populi through my health economics/consumer tech lens for most years since 2011 (skipping 2012 and 2016).

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