Five Ways Rare Diseases can Benefit from Digital Health Technology
Rare diseases present special challenges for patients, families and clinicians alike. Symptoms may be mistaken or assumed to be more common ailments. There is not enough searchable material online for...
View ArticleFive Reasons why the End of Meaningful Use is the Beginning of Meaningful...
Background: The HITECH Act promoted the use of electronic health records (EHRs) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Meaningful Use is an incentive program for providers to...
View ArticleMy Five Asks of Digital Health
Digital health is experiencing what I would characterize as its adolescence. The rudimentary pieces are in place for adoption; Awareness of the technologies, the progressing maturation of mobile...
View ArticleFive Ways to Turn Big Data into Relevant Data
‘Big Data’ may be defined as data that is so large or complex that it cannot be processed by the usual applications. Current common uses of Big Data in healthcare include the collection of genomic...
View ArticleFive Reasons We Must Untrap Digital Health’s Big Data
We tend to think of Big Data as a Land of Oz where we can find any information we need. What is not appreciated by most in healthcare is that there is a lot of Big Data collected but most is not...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Digital Health Needs Patient Reported Outcomes
According to the National Quality Forum, patient reported outcomes or patient reported outcomes measures (PROs) can be defined as “any report of the status of a patient’s health condition that comes...
View ArticleFive Essentials of a Population Management Digital Health Technology
Population health management (PHM) means different things to different people. It is a term which is in vogue now because of its injection into healthcare provider payment models and describes a...
View ArticleFive Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs
Registries have traditionally been viewed as static repositories of data to be reviewed in a summary fashion after a predetermined time period. The expanding need for drilled down relevant data has...
View ArticleThe The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health
Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. The...
View ArticleFive Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety
The most discussed issues in healthcare today are cost savings and access to care. There is no denying their rightful preeminence in the public discourse. Something which has received more attention...
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