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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates. In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs.

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The Gamification of Healthcare : Emergence of the Digital Practitioner?

Lloyd Price

billion times since their debut in 2012 and contribute to more than 70,000 miles being “swiped” on interactive screens daily. (3) Gamification for mHealth: a review of playful mobile healthcare. Stud Health Technol Inform. A systematic review of gamification in e-health. Digital health innovation action plan.

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3 Real-World Reasons the Scripps Study Failed

Chilmark Research

Several pundits, including study author Dr. Eric Topol himself, have offered up insights (and excuses) as to what’s happening here: the study wasn’t long enough, data are inconclusive, technology has evolved since 2012, etc. In the context of a digital health study, it’s safe to say the petri dish was probably contaminated.

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Harvard Business Review: Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry

mHealth Insight

mHealth Insights. Electronic health records and digitized health data are now ubiquitous. Imagine Alexa- or Siri-style digital health advisors that can respond to consumer questions based on users’ unique health care data and informed by artificial intelligence.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). mHealth Insights. health care spending, 3 so the promise of mobile health is especially attractive.” “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D.,