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Industry Coalitions: The Key to Advancing Medical Software Regulations

Mobile Health Matters

Will the industry have a chance to provide feedback or comments on the new process after the pilot is completed? By collaborating effectively, we can create guidelines for ourselves that align with our needs and pace of innovation – without needing the FDA to oversee every aspect of our industry. How will the reviews be conducted?

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The New Kid on the Block: How Blockchain Can Revolutionize Access to Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

Data is the bread and butter of the digital health industry. HIPAA is upheld and auditing is easy. Digital health companies can use health data to implement artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models and algorithms. The following is a guest article by Guy Tish, Co-Founder and CTO at Briya.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. How to deal? Those risks do not naturally fit, Beazley says, into traditional insurance silos.

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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

Health Populi

This translates to consumers’ growing expectations of the healthcare industry…including hospitals. 9 in 10 hospitals and health systems prioritize improving the consumer/patient experience, but only 30% of providers are building these capabilities, I wrote in the Health Populi blog discussing Kaufman Hall’s research.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

Key challenges facing people doing their own set-up include problems connecting with Wi-Fi networks (which is among the top technical problems consumer experience), inter-connectivity between devices due to industry fragmentation and lack of adoption of standards, and short battery life. Financial literacy, especially key to U.S.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

This is where testing and learning become a key part of adoption and ultimately the maturity of digital health,” said Kaveh Safavi, M.D., a senior managing director in Accenture’s global Health practice. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Privacy concerns are front-of-mind among consumers in 2020 across all industries.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem. CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine. CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.