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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

The FDA issued a series of four patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents which outline how patient co-design needs to successfully happen. By the power vested in clinical research, the FDA now pronounces us patient and industry. You may now kiss the cancer survivor.

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Health Consumers Are Now Amazon-Primed for Healthcare – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 2

Health Populi

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. See more on that recommendation, and subsequent social media frenzy, here on Health Populi ).

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Bonus Features – June 26, 2022 – Walgreens gets into clinical trials, ONC offering SDOH grants, and more

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has some money for you. Welcome to the inaugural edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Self-sovereign identity (SSI) - the future of Health Data?

Lloyd Price

Enhanced research efficiency: Researchers can gain faster access to anonymized patient data with patient consent through SSI, accelerating research efforts and drug development. This empowers them to manage their health information and participate actively in their care decisions.

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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

The Digital Health Corner

Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And on the topic of apps, several of its devices support third-party software offerings that open more doors for health data collection or monitoring – for instance, a photoplethysmography (PPG)-based feature enabling nighttime atrial fibrillation readings. Another product is called the eCareCompanion patient application.