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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. 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. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Evidence for the positive impact of this data on quality, satisfaction, and in some cases cost is thin but growing.

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HIMSS14: Patiently Waiting for Progress

Chilmark Research

We have been sold on the transformative promise of more proactive patient populations, fueled with education, armed with their own data, and empowered to become interactive with a connected fleet of software and hardware. EHRs Look Inward. HIEs Look Backward.

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Branding, Cheerleading, and even some Progress

Chilmark Research

A related issue emerging on the delivery system side is the backlog of dashboard style tools, which were part of nearly every clinically oriented demo or slidedeck we saw, from EHR to analytics vendors, not to mention the mushrooming number of care coordination plays out there. Promise of Data-Powered Self-Care.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The IMDRF recognizes that the regulated community touched by this guidance is more software-focused than hardware-focused (and is not the traditional medical device regulated community), thus requiring some new approaches to data gathering and analysis. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The IMDRF recognizes that the regulated community touched by this guidance is more software-focused than hardware-focused (and is not the traditional medical device regulated community), thus requiring some new approaches to data gathering and analysis. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The IMDRF recognizes that the regulated community touched by this guidance is more software-focused than hardware-focused (and is not the traditional medical device regulated community), thus requiring some new approaches to data gathering and analysis. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap.