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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

One early survey of physicians on their use of social media found that “85% of oncologists and primary care physicians use social media at least once a week or once a day to scan or explore health information.

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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.,