Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

Digital Health 60

Digital Health Healthcare Innovation Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

Digital Health 60

Digital Health Healthcare Innovation Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

Digital Health 60

Digital Health Healthcare Innovation Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

Digital Health 60

Digital Health Healthcare Innovation Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has long recognized the potential of mobile health technologies for its mission. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is launching a three-year $19M initiative focusing on mobile apps and telehealth aids for rural physicians in efforts to treat opioid addiction. Opioid addiction.

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The Digital Health Corner

AUGUST 7, 2017

The Action Plan builds on and improves previous digital health guidances. The FDA has previously released guidance documents on Mobile Medical Apps and General Principles of Software Validation. These were a well thought out and developed group of guidelines with patient safety as a focus.

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Digital Health Health Technology Leadership mHealth 87

mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

mHealth Insight. At times the RCGP seems fixated on efforts to detract from efforts to evolve general practice beyond the office visit only model but I think this is a fascinating document and it will provide a great launchpad for discussions about how services should be designed.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes. I’d like to discuss what I believe are five areas of significant opportunity for quality technologies. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.

Digital Health 87

Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

mHealth Insight. At times the RCGP seems fixated on efforts to detract from efforts to evolve general practice beyond the office visit only model but I think this is a fascinating document and it will provide a great launchpad for discussions about how services should be designed.

General practice 31

General practice mHealth Nursing Mobile Health 31

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In establishing their rationale for the study, the researchers stated that several studies documenting the widespread use of these and similar apps among different populations and named the following publications (Gál et al., 2021 ; Linardon, 2020 ; Sevilla-Llewellyn-Jones et al., Additional Reading Armstrong, C. Ciulla, R. Berthod, J.,

Mental health 52

Mental health Psychiatry Mobile Health Health Information 52

The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Some carriers require genetic testing to document a diagnosis (though the diagnosis can be made via significantly high blood levels alone), but won’t pay for the genetic testing which costs $2-3K dollars. Would payers rather pay for heart bypass surgery?

Digital Health 60

Digital Health Medicare EHR mHealth 60

Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Kiosk: Telemedicine kiosks are self-sufficient mobile healthcare sites where patients can access telemedicine care in locations such as pharmacies and grocery stores, and soon potentially in airports and college campuses. The act also contains rules about prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 30, 2017

Relative to Ad specifically, I would reference the incredibly informative and moving award-winning film Alive Inside , documenting the response of patients with severe Ad to music relevant to their personal past. Music should be considered as a potentially much appreciated and useful tool.

Health Technology 60

Health Technology Digital Health Health Policy Public Health 60

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

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.” Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., More than 40% of U.S.

Mobile Health 48

Mobile Health mHealth EHR FHIR 48

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The blurring of mobile and digital into overall business process is a meta-trend for the global economy, and certainly for the health care ecosystem. I’ve covered this influential document here in Health Populi through my health economics/consumer tech lens for most years since 2011 (skipping 2012 and 2016).

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