The Digital Health Corner

AUGUST 7, 2017

The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. The Action Plan builds on and improves previous digital health guidances.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2019

From a sheer quantity standpoint, the plethora of devices from Amazon (claiming sales of 100 million gadgets at the end of 2018, plus a dozen new ones introduced for the 2019 holiday sales period) captures the stampede nature of the market. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

Besides further cementing consumer commitment to support aging at home, 2018 demonstrated that tech-enabled home care offerings may again prove useful despite over-heated investment that culminated in an unprecedented $200 million of failed , bungled, or pivoted home care startups – leaving the traditional home care industry largely unchanged.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2019

By 2018, had approved Dexcom’s G5 Continuous Glucose Monitor , Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre CGM , Medtronic’s Guardian Connect , and Dexcom’s G6. These were followed by Eversense in 2018 and Senseonics in 2019. . category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You probably knew this – that 2018 was the year of voice tech and healthcare. onsider the healthcare experiences we have endured – it’s a good time to consider a new way to interact with the health system. As for Bixby, its features can be integrated with Samsung Health (Mobile First) – for example, activity stats.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Most because it was difficult to absorb and rationalize so much tech news, hype, booths and convention center halls at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2019 – where a step counter status update may have been the most satisfying experience of all at the end of the day. In 2018, technology utilization grew – so did frustrations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

led insurer Cigna in March 2018 to launch Answers by Cigna. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health. Alexa has the answer to ‘Where’s the Nearest Hospital” but sends you to WebMD for how to treat a sunburn.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

CEO (and American Well founder) Dr. Roy Schoenberg noted that the pioneering telehealth company, founded in 2006, rebranded itself on March 9 as Amwell. As the newly published vision states: “No longer is telehealth merely a virtual urgent care service. J2Global – from the telehealth sublime to the reality of fax. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 24, 2019

Why tackle the topic of voice, health, and well-being? This research is a follow-on report to the 2018 Future of Voice First Technology and Older Adults. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare , home health care.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AstraZeneca today launches Evinova, set to be a leading provider of digital health solutions to better meet the needs of healthcare professionals, regulators and patients. Patient interaction is available through an easy-to-use, engaging patient app available in more than 40 countries and 80 languages.

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SightCall

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

As an example, the covered entity could be a health insurance company while the business associate could be a startup that utilizes Protected Health Information (PHI) for its mHealth app. HIPAA compliant data storage is a hot topic for every mHealth startup handling PHI. billion in 2018 , growing tenfold from 2013.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2019

The ability of such analytics to both assess patients in the moment and point toward their potential future condition had health systems investing more than $566 million in the technology during 2018, the report notes. THE LARGER TREND. to deliver targeted, outcome-based therapies."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

During 2018, Amazon patented a version of its Alexa technology that perhaps could evaluate whether a person is ill. Excerpt from Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 report published in January 2020.]. . category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you were to ask someone on the street what they consider the most impactful digital health innovation over the last five years, there’s a good chance their response would be, “telemedicine”. Telehealth applications include: Live (synchronous) video conferencing: a two-way audiovisual link between a patient and a care provider.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

This chart, on page 262, is important for healthcare delivery because a large proportion of the healthcare labor force is indeed foreign-born — at all levels of the system, from hyper-specialists in the operating room and research labs to home health aides helping elders with activities of daily living.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California, home to start-ups, mature tech platform companies (like Apple, Facebook and Google), and countless digital health developers, is in a particularly strategic place to fight the FCC and, now, the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen other states are looking to write net neutrality laws following Governor Brown’s example.

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