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What Role Can Consumer Health Technology Play in Diagnoses?

HIT Consultant

David Smith, President at ilumivu There’s an ongoing debate regarding the role that consumer health technology , like wearable health devices (i.e., Because this is a relatively new technology, the scope of its potential impact is, at present, only scraping the surface. What are the drawbacks of health technology?

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France to enable rapid market access for digital therapeutics

Healthcare It News

” The DiGA initiative, created under the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), means doctors can prescribe apps to the 73 million German citizens covered by public health, with costs reimbursed through health insurance. I’m very direct with you – we will just replicate what works in Germany.”

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Improving Patient Engagement and Retention Through Technology

Medical GPS

From the exam room to the home, technology is transforming every facet of healthcare at a pace that’s both exciting and overwhelming. 1) We may not have Star-Trek’s hand-held bone or dermal regeneration tech, but with healthcare technology advancing at its current rate, we can’t be far from it.

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Mortal Sins of Orphan Drug Development: How to Save the Lost Souls

Bill Of Health

In a working paper from November 2020 , the EU Commission finds a significant inefficiency in the EU orphan drug regulation (a pan-EU piece of legislation): that it does not contain a provision to safeguard the affordability and accessibility of orphan medicines. But, is the orphan drug regulation the right place for this type of law?

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The Gains and Pains of Using AI in the Pharmaceutical Industry

HIT Consultant

Contributing factors to this included larger trial sizes, the need to assess health technology, the requirement to provide data on comparative drugs’ effectiveness, and most importantly the high failure rate. A study in 2020 concluded that the estimated median capitalized research and development cost per product was $985 million.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices.

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Roundups: 16 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

The CCPC project aims to allow patients to continue their care at home after discharge through the development of new predictive analytics, AI, and home monitoring technology that integrates with current medical systems for uninterrupted care from hospital to home. FIGS, Inc. ,