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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

“A major challenge of mobile health is the high drop-off rate in sensor and app usage. 40 In one survey, more than half of users of activity trackers stopped using their device, and a third did so in the first 6 months. Mobile health technologies, in contrast, often combine hardware (e.g.,