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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to the category’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally!

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What Do Tomorrow’s Doctors REALLY Think of mHealth Technology?

mHealth Insight

Nathan Ratner, a third-year medical student at the University of Minnesota and third-place finisher in last year’s Elsevier Hackathon in Finland, talks to Eric Wicklund at mHealth Intelligence, about the promise of mobile health technology. mHealth Insight.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Join us at “Transforming Community Pharmacies in to High Street Clinics”

mHealth Insight

Topics/Speakers will include: Introduction & Background Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL. Community Pharmacy in Primary Care Mr Steve Brine, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Public Health at UK Dept of Health & MP for Winchester (invited).

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Rock Health’s 2018 survey reinforces what we know-we know about consumers’ willingness to share health data — and that is that the physician, above all health care entities, is the patient’s most trusted data steward.

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

The classification of substance abuse as a chronic condition by the ACA has implications with regards to digital health. There are medication assisted treatment (MATx) mobile apps to guide physicians in utilizing pharmaceutical drugs to treat addiction. It has spawned interest in telehealth as a treatment tool.

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A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare

Health Blawg

One of the bright points that may give hope that the employee effort could succeed is, frankly, the proponents’ track record of success.