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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories.

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E&T: Health apps frequently neglect privacy of users, study finds

mHealth Insight

Hilary Lamb at Engineering & Technology reports on a study that has found “Health apps frequently neglect privacy of users” mHealth Insights. “The issue of health data being shared insecurely has been a concern for years. “We

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) is the result.

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A Different Approach to Health App Curation

Chilmark Research

The failure of Happtique, the stasis of the National Health Service’s Health Apps Library , and the limited availability of existing health app curation services all present Ranked Health with ado n opportunity to fill a gaping void in the market. Health apps are not games, and they should not be treated as such.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

(If you’re being compliant or adherent you’ll read those three first: SaMD: Key Definitions (2013), SaMD: Possible Framework for Risk Categorization and Corresponding Considerations (2014), and SaMD: Application of Quality Management System (2015).)

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. I’d like to discuss what I believe are five areas of significant opportunity for quality technologies. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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Five Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs

The Digital Health Corner

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) has been used since 2015 as a metric to determine negative Medicare payment adjustments to providers who do not meet quality standards. I will discuss below some of the most useful applications of such exemplary registries. Provide real-world data for regulators.