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Mobile health is exciting and holds tremendous promise for improving care and lowering costs. However, with an estimated 40,000 new apps and devices coming to market each year, the pace of innovation represents a major challenge in healthcare IT.
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By Rick Lee, Founder and former CEO, Healthrageous
I was so impressed with former CEO Dave Dickinson’s postmortem on Zeo, which MobiHealthNews published in May, that I wanted to offer a similar reflection on Healthrageous.
1) BHAG: Our big, hairy, audacious goal (apologies to Tom Peters) was possibly as ambitious as boiling the ocean. David Kirchoff eloquently delineated the necessary components...
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by Grant Elliott, Founder & CEO, Ostendio
By simply following the media hype around the recent September 23rd implementation deadline, you could be forgiven for thinking that the final omnibus rule is bad news for mobile health application developers. To recap, the final omnibus rule came into effect on March 23, 2013 but "business associates" were given six months from that date to become...
by Bradley Merrill Thompson
As just about everyone knows, last week the FDA published its final guidance on mobile medical apps. That guidance explains in plain English the types of mHealth apps the agency regulates. Over the coming weeks, many of us will be dissecting that guidance to assess what it really means and how the guidance affects the numerous apps already released, as well as those on...
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When it comes to building a patient-facing mobile app portfolio, whose responsibility is it? While your IT may have the technical expertise to implement mobile solutions for patient engagement, it is the healthcare marketer who truly possesses the most comprehensive knowledge of your hospital's mobile audience. It only makes sense, therefore, that marketers should...
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Growing evidence shows that emotionally connected patients create more valuable customers. Hospital mobile apps can help improve patient experience and build emotional connections between your patients and your healthcare brand.
Faced with stressful health circumstances, patients find themselves in a whirlwind of emotions: fear, confusion, loneliness, isolation,...
By Bradley Merrill Thompson
In response to my prior post on this topic, athenahealth's VP of Government Affairs, Mr. Dan Haley took the time to write some very thoughtful-provoking comments. I appreciate him taking the time to do so. I think it probably helps everyone to have a thorough debate of these issues. So in the spirit of debate, I’d like to offer a few reactions.
As I said in my original...
