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I often get asked about the difference between Digital Health and eHealth. Here’s what I think… You can transparently and equitably share not enough money but it’s still not enough money. At some point you have to consider the demand-side of the healthcare equation. eHealth eHealth is largely about driving supply-side efficiency, quality and safety in … Via Lionel Reichardt / le Pharmageek 
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FDA said it will ease up vetting general health and wellness apps, but it will scrutinize clinical applications and devices. Does this mean the FTC will step up?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued final guidance on “low-risk” digital health apps and devices for general health management 18 months after it came out with draft guidance. The document offers information on the kinds of apps and devices for which it will and won’t take action. Apps promoting or maintaining a healthy weight or to assist with weight loss goals and healthy eating are OK. The guidance says that companies can make claims that their apps and devices can help with healthy lifestyle choices to reduce the risk of chronic conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease or improve their management. But those lifestyle choices have to be advocated by the likes of the American Heart Association or American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist or peer-reviewed medical journals. So what are some examples of what’s not OK? Claims that a product will treat or diagnose obesity, an eating disorder, such as bullimia or anorexia, or an anxiety disorder. Digital health entrepreneurs are also encouraged to ask themselves the following questions: Is the product invasive? If the answer is yes to any of the above, they need to assume their products are considered clinical applications, will be scrutinized and should act accordingly. My takeaway from the guidance is twofold. It’s a question of resources. Although there are thousands of general wellness apps, more and more medical device and pharma companies are developing digital health devices and apps of their own. Second, the Federal Trade Commission has shown it is willing to take action against companies that it deems to be making false health claims about their apps and devices.
Via rob halkes, Pharma Guy
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August 1, 2016 4:50 AM
Health apps should do what they promise! At the moment they need to take a diagnostic feature and use personal physics to arrive at advice or conclusions about the health status of the person who uses the app, they are considered not to be 'just' an "app" but a medical device. At that condition they need to adhere to and be certified by several criteria attached to 'medical devices". Developers should know about this, which the more professional ones will. Rightly so! PatientView has developed a website MyHealthApps that presents an inventory of the better Health Apps. 
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August 1, 2016 8:38 AM
Also read “FDA Won't Regulate ‘Low-Risk’ mHealth Apps as Medical Devices. But Battle Looms Over Defining ‘Low Risk’"; http://sco.lt/5kkDyr
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Approximately $6.5 billion in new funding flowed into the digital health space in 2014, more than double the previous year's haul of $2.9 billion, according to data from digital healthcare accelerator StartUp Health. But investors placed their bets on fewer companies. Only 459 companies received funding this year, a drop from the 590 who received investments in 2013. The decrease in companies financed is one of the “signs of a maturing market,” StartUp Health says. Another sign may be the stage at which venture capitalists and firms are making investments in startups. According to StartUp Health's data, just over 25% of deals were in the seed capital stage, a very early stage in a company's development. That's the lowest percentage since 2010, and indicates that there are relatively fewer funded startup entrants in this year's cohort. Via rob halkes
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January 10, 2015 3:51 AM
Indeed, the health care market is structurally changing, also due to the volume compnay's entering the health care place from new perspectives: computers (e.g. Apple), Smartphones (e.g. Samsung) and IT - software (e.g. McKesson).
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According to a survey of thousands of patients in Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, the adoption of digital healthcare services remains low because existing services are either low quality or not meeting patients’ needs. The survey, conducted by consulting firm McKinsey, included responses from at least 1,000 patients in the three countries. “Many healthcare executives believe that, due to the sensitive nature of medical care, patients don’t want to use digital services except in a few specific situations; decision makers often cite data that point to relatively low usage of digital healthcare services,” McKinsey analysts Stefan Biesdorf and Florian Niedermann wrote in a recent blog post. “In fact, the results of our survey reveal something quite different. The reason patients are slow to adopt digital healthcare is primarily because existing services don’t meet their needs or because they are of poor quality.” McKinsey found that more than 75 percent of respondents would like to use some kind of digital health service. Many are interested in “mundane” offerings, the firm wrote.
Via rob halkes, Lionel Reichardt / le Pharmageek, LA BLOUSE BLANCHE
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July 16, 2014 7:18 AM
Great Survey results, aligning with what experts already thought. Results generated by Germany, Singapore and the UK, but believed to be representative of patients in these advanced markets. See my conclusions upon reading the report here 
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July 25, 2014 10:32 AM
Los resultados de una encuesta parecen derribar algunos mitos respecto de la "salud móvil" o m-health como "Esta tecnología solo la usan los jóvenes".
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According to a report over at 9to5Mac, Apple is developing a health app called Healthbook that will track steps taken, calories burned, and miles walked. The app will also helps users track blood pressure, hydration levels, heart rate, and other blood-related biometrics, including — possible — glucose levels. In addition to the tracking features, Healthbook will also reportedly help users remember to take their medications and may even integrate with the iPhone’s existing, built-in Reminders app. The report cites sources who describe the app as being modeled after Apple’s Passbook app, which is an app for storing loyalty cards and coupons. Like Passbook, Healthbook would be designed with an interface that resembles a stack of cards — each card representing a different health or fitness data point. 9to5Mac points out that many features and apps are developed for an upcoming iOS launch than the number that actually makes it into the final cut. While Healthbook may be under development at Apple, it still may never find its way to market. Rumors aside, Apple has been poaching engineering talent and senior employees from digital health companies over the course of the past year. So, it certainly has more than a passing interest in digital health. Most recently, MobiHealthNews broke the news that Apple had hired Michael O’Reilly, the former chief medical officer of Masimo Corporation, which specializes in pulse oximeters. At the very end of 2012 Masimo commercially launched an iPhone-enabled pulse oximeter called the iSpO2. Over the weekend The New York Times reported a few new scoops on Apple’s mobile health plans and its rumored iWatch project. Apple’s meeting in December with the FDA was focused on the subject of “mobile medical apps”, which is the term the FDA uses for those apps that need to be regulated as medical devices. “They are either trying to get the lay of the land for regulatory pathways with medical devices and apps and this was an initial meeting, or Apple has been trying to push something through the FDA for a while and they’ve had hangups,” Mark A. McAndrew, a partner with the law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister, who first noticed the public notice about the Apple-FDA meeting, speculated in an interview with The New York Times.... [read on ] Via rob halkes
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February 5, 2014 4:44 AM
Only a matter of time before Apple saw the potentail of health and big data combinations
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84 percent of US consumers believe they should have full access to their electronic medical records while only a third of physicians (34 percent) share this belief, according to an Accenture survey. Via rob halkes
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October 8, 2013 12:40 PM
Good to se that patient empowerment is growing!
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Healthcare Technology Online reports this week that there is a new comic strip online called Hacking N' Healthcare. "Hacking N’ Healthcare is a comic strip that takes a humorous look at the challen... Via Ignacio Fernández Alberti
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August 29, 2013 2:32 PM
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Son muchas las oportunidades existentes para darse cuenta del potencial de la innovación digital dentro de la industria de la salud. Las nuevas tecnologías en este campo están emergiendo en todo el mundo a un ritmo imparable y se están expandiendo para completar los huecos donde hasta ahora no había soluciones a los problemas que podían experimentar cada uno de los agentes que participan en las empresas de las ciencias de la salud. Via Ignacio Fernández Alberti
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Todavía no existe en ningún bloque ni país del mundo una regulación legislativa sobre lasaplicaciones móviles destinadas a la salud de los usuarios, pues el abordaje excede las normas vigentes. Ante este vacío legal, la Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ha publicado una guía de recomendaciones a tener en cuenta por desarrolladores, distribuidores y entidades que trabajen en la construcción de estas herramientas mHealth.
El objetivo del organismo es aplicar su autoridad regulatoria en aras de realizar una selección de softwares pensados para dispositivos móviles. Pero el documento no establece obligaciones legales ni normativas, sino que sugiere los aspectos a los que la industria debe prestarles especial atención antes de desarrollar o comercializar estas tecnologías.
De hecho, la publicación hace énfasis en aquellas apps pensadas para trabajar como dispositivos médicos que pueden llegar a exponer al paciente a ciertos riesgos.
Para entrar en esta definición, las app deben cumplir algunas funciones:
• Proveer herramientas para organizar o hacer un seguimiento de datos sobre el estado de salud de los usuarios. • Ofrecer información amigable sobre tratamientos y enfermedades relacionadas. • Documentar o comunicar condiciones médicas potenciales. • Permitir que los usuarios interactúen con sistemas de historia clínica electrónica. • Transferir, almacenar, traducir o enviar datos de un dispositivo médico externo. • Realizar cálculos rutinarios de la práctica médica automáticamente.
Podeis leer el articulo completo en E-health Reporter en
Via Ignacio Fernández Alberti
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August 12, 2015 2:16 PM
la guía de la FDA se puede descargar en
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Impulsamos tu marca de salud a través de Social Media y eventos especializados, más información en
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Today's mobile apps are helping diabetics aggregate blood sugar and nutritional data from multiple platforms and devices and logging data into central portals accessible anywhere, according to Steve Robinson, general manager of the Cloud Platform Services Division for IBM. The gains include everything from simplifying records and improving doctor-patient conversations to gaining a holistic view of a diabetic's health. Doctors can "crunch and analyze patient data at rapid speeds to help identify patterns and predict future health and treatment needs," he writes. "Mobile apps can help diabetes sufferers get ahead of their symptoms and live healthier, more carefree lives," Robinson says. eBrief | Advice for Healthcare Organizations Seeking to Centralize Patient Records, Decommission Legacy Systems Health systems are transforming their foundations and infrastructures to cut costs and improve care. In this eBook, hospital leaders share challenges and tools to make systemwide decisions that can help boost quality care and outcomes. Download today! Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox! Diabetes tools have ranged from providing smartphone coaching that is helping diabetics living in low to modest socioeconomic communities manage their disease and improving their health, to a wearable, automated bionic pancreas for continuous glucose monitor and a software algorithm, according to a study at the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, mobile monitoring of diabetic employees can save more than $3,000 a year in healthcare costs, half of the average annual medical insurance cost for workers diagnosed with diabetes. Today's tools and cloud-based capabilities are reducing those costs while also driving innovation for disease management, Robinson says. "Using cloud services, combined with the ease and convenience of mobile, new methods of managing this disease are being brought to patients around the world," he writes. Related Articles: Via Celine Sportisse, DIRECT MEDICA by Webhelp, dbtmobile
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Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación aplicadas a la salud (eSalud) permiten proporcionar la mejor asistencia sanitaria posible con menor coste, según los organizadores de las I Jornadas de eSalud Asturias, que se han celebrado recientemente en el Auditorio Palacio de Congresos Príncipe de Asturias de Oviedo. La eSalud engloba conceptos como la salud móvil (mHealth), las aplicaciones de salud, la telemedicina, los dispositivos con sensores (wearables), la historia clínica digitalizada, la receta electrónica, la monitorización de la gestión sanitaria, los juegos de salud (gamificación) y las redes sociales (salud 2.0), entre otros. “Estamos asistiendo a una transformación total de la asistencia sanitaria, en la que los pacientes controlan su propia salud a través del móvil o un sensor conectado a la ropa, comparten información por las redes sociales, aprenden de su enfermedad con un juego de salud, acceden a sus datos clínicos en la nube y se comunican con los mejores especialistas desde su casa”, explica Ignacio Alberti, coordinador de las jornadas. El resultado es, asegura, “una mayor satisfacción del paciente, una atención más completa y personalizada y un menor coste”. Via Ignacio Fernández Alberti
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Build it and they will come. I sense that this may be a guiding principle to digital health. Build a sexy device or a cool app and the democratization of healthcare will magically appear. Via Ignacio Fernández Alberti
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En Salud Social Media usamos Social Media para innovar en la Salud y la eSalud, para ello promocionamos y POSICIONAMOS EMPRESAS Y SUS NUEVOS PRODUCTOS en los camposHealthcare y de la Telemedicina.
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July 7, 2013 7:50 PM
The trend in retail health care needs to be considered in the big picture of teleservices which is outlined here |
