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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Payers are consolidating as well because of pressures to scale for clients across large geographical regions and to support costs of technology. I would add that the enactment (and some would say the design) of the ACA itself spurred payer consolidation.

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The Gamification of Healthcare : Emergence of the Digital Practitioner?

Lloyd Price

billion times since their debut in 2012 and contribute to more than 70,000 miles being “swiped” on interactive screens daily. (3) Gamification for mHealth: a review of playful mobile healthcare. Stud Health Technol Inform. A systematic review of gamification in e-health. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177(11):1593-1594.

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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.” 46 As patients independently bring mobile health data to clinicians (e.g.,