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

mHealth Insight

Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.