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Streamlining Healthcare Innovation: Working Together to Improve Digital Health Regulations

Mobile Health Matters

By working together to streamline this regulatory process, technology will arrive to the market faster and propel the healthcare industry forward. For example, the FDA created a new unit within the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health , which focuses solely on digital health. FDA Shows Signs of Progress.

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#DHIS15 Recap: B2B2C, Mobile First, Telehealth 2.0, and more

American Well

We want fee for value all day long” was one of several opening statements made by Optum CEO Larry Renfro at the start of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on Tuesday November 3 in Boston. Mobileron VP Ojas Rege noted that for the first time last month, more than half of internet activity was accessed over mobile.

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#DHIS15 Recap: B2B2C, Mobile First, Telehealth 2.0, and more

American Well

We want fee for value all day long” was one of several opening statements made by Optum CEO Larry Renfro at the start of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on Tuesday November 3 in Boston. Mobileron VP Ojas Rege noted that for the first time last month, more than half of internet activity was accessed over mobile.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The draft CDS and PDS Guidance is intended to clarify what sorts of digital health tools will not be considered devices and thus not regulated by the FDA. Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images.

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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

For example, reminding a diabetic patient aged 50 or above that their health matters to their family yields about a 20% increase in patient engagement (which translates to medication adherence), while the same messaging delivered to a millennial yields only a 5% increase. We don’t “talk about illness or sickness.

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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

For example, reminding a diabetic patient aged 50 or above that their health matters to their family yields about a 20% increase in patient engagement (which translates to medication adherence), while the same messaging delivered to a millennial yields only a 5% increase. We don’t “talk about illness or sickness.

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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

For example, reminding a diabetic patient aged 50 or above that their health matters to their family yields about a 20% increase in patient engagement (which translates to medication adherence), while the same messaging delivered to a millennial yields only a 5% increase. We don’t “talk about illness or sickness.