Will there come a day when the prescribing of mHealth could augment that of traditional medicine?
It’s exciting to consider the possibility that mHealth e-prescribing may prove more useful in changing patient behavior than the modern day physician “plan” that comes at the end of every SOAP note.
Here's why.
As a pediatrician, I use a fabulous patient health record that essentially mirrors my...
The outlook for mobile health is bright: Using an "Internet of Things" model to halt the progression of lifestyle disease could be our best chance to reap mind-boggling cost savings.
With millions of new Medicaid enrollees entering the insurance pool and a shift away from the fee-for-service payment model - all set against the backdrop of state Medicaid departments lagging behind Medicare when...
It's easy to launch a consumer product in the App Store and get a quantified-self early adopter with low BMI, disposable income and internal motivation for a healthy lifestyle. Indeed, ease of distribution is one of the main reasons so many are developing for the quantified-self group.
To really have a widespread impact, we need to reach their opposite: Low-income Medicaid patients. Getting to...
