Nice slidedeck from my friend Fard Johnmar who takes a look back at what digital health from Big Data to genomics brought to us in 2014 and what the future holds.
Tag: digital health
Oncologists Use Of Digital Health (Infographic)
Infographic highlighting the use of digital, mobile, apps, and professional resources online by US oncologists (source: Digital Insights Group).
Primary Care Doctors And Digital Health
Infographic highlighting the use of digital, mobile, apps, and clinical resources online by US Primary Care Physicians (source: Digital Insights Group).
Healthcare Without Borders: How Millennials Are Reshaping Digital Health
US-based consumer collaboration agency, Communispace, has undertaken a study of Millennial healthcare values, and their report, “Healthcare Without Borders: How Millennials are Reshaping Health and Wellness” reveals what their finding means for digital health. The infographic above illustrates some of the key findings from the report.
Managing Chronic Diseases: An App A Day?
A recent presentation by Dr Iris Thiele Isip Tan at the World Congress on Cardiology in Melbourne, Australia.
The digital revolution and the era of the e-patient
I was delighted to have the opportunity to share the stage with Dr Kendall Ho, a practicing emergency medicine specialist and founding director of the eHealth Strategy Office of the University of British Columbia, at the Universitas 21 Health Sciences Group annual meeting held recently at University College Dublin. In a lively and engaging presentation Dr Ho spoke to delegates about how medical educators can embrace social media.
Also presenting was consultant rheumatologist, Dr Ronan Kavanagh, speaking on how doctors can use the tools of social media in their practice.
And my own presentation on the digital revolution and the era of the e-patient.
Digital Health: Healthcare via Smartphones {Infographic}
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Digital Health, Informatics and Remote Monitoring
In this short video, Director of the Institute of Digital Healthcare and Professor of Healthcare Technology , Christopher James elaborates on the effectiveness of various types of digital health technologies.
Quantifying Guilt
With dueling stories hitting Newsweek and the New York Times this afternoon, the digital health corner of the world has noticed mainstream media hitting on one of our favorite topics: Quantified Health. The feature piece from Newsweek is their technical cover story, and NYT turned to one of its own technology big guns in David Pogue to author their story.
The coverage of the devices is on par with what we usually see in this topic: wearables, tracking sleep, movement, activity, with apps that can help you get an overall picture of the story.
We’d consider ourselves pretty close to the topic of quantified self, as we’ve watched throughout the year as this topic has continued to rise in media and consumer tech circles. One thing I can say, from observation, is that the value proposition for tracking health is most often positioned as a positive one. Tracking your activity guides…
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Why digital health tools need to be rated
The digital health revolution is in full swing, and there are an abundance of new mobile and web-based digital health tools that address everything from nutrition and exercise habits to disease-specific conditions and hospitalization. Consumers have embraced the new trend, and are becoming more actively involved in tracking and managing their own health.
Thomas Santo writes that one hurdle to capitalizing on this new wave of patient engagement is the fact that the market is full of products that are unlikely to produce any long-term health benefits, with more beneficial, substantive tools interspersed in between. He asks the question: How then can a patient decide which products to invest their time, money and motivation in?
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