12 Digital Health In-Depths from the MobiHealthNews team

By Brian Dolan
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Brian Dolan, Editor, MobiHealthNewsThis year MobiHealthNews started publishing longer form pieces each Friday -- both as our dedicated newsletter edition that day and as an "In-Depth" feature on our publication's site. So far our editorial team has put together a dozen of these reports on a fairly wide variety of topics. In case you missed any, here's a quick recap of our In-Depths to date:

In-Depth: The MobiHealthNews CES 2014 Wrap-Up -- Revisit our CES coverage of direct-to-consumer health device launches, the saturated fitness tracker market and the medical device companies that show off their wares at the country's biggest consumer electronics event.

In-Depth: Digital Health Trends in 2014 -- This post focuses on some of our predictions for digital health in the coming year and includes coverage of our first webinar, which was on the same topic.

In-Depth: Apps hospitals create for their patients -- As of the beginning of this year, there were more than 200 apps for consumers branded as hospital apps, meaning the healthcare facilities built them in-house or had a third party developer create them under a white label agreement. This feature takes a look at the trend of hospital-branded apps and the sorts of features these apps tend to offer.

In-Depth: A brief history of digital patient engagement tools -- This MobiHealthNews post includes a brief history of digital tools for patient engagement -- dating back to around 2008.

In-Depth: Payer news and moves at HIMSS 2014 -- As part of our HIMSS coverage this year, we focused in on healthcare insurance companies for this longer form report.

In-Depth: Digital health APIs every health startup should know -- The API economy in healthcare is slowly but surely growing. While few APIs are open, a number of digital health companies have announced the availability of APIs. Our round-up is a good list for those looking to integrate other digital health data streams.

In-Depth: Funding and founders of patient-facing, digital health companies -- MobiHealthNews spent a considerable amount of time last year analyzing the patient-facing side of the digital health market. Did funding for these companies peak in 2012? Our data indicates that it may have. 

In-Depth: Providers’ inevitable acceptance of patient generated health data -- In this feature we discuss the increasing empowerment of patients to provide data to their providers that helps them manage their health conditions together.

In-Depth: State of the Industry Digital Health Q1 2014 -- For many years MobiHealthNews sold premium reports, including quarterly reports that summed up all the important digital health news from that quarter. At the end of Q1, instead of selling a paid Q1 report we published this in-depth post for our readers.

In-Depth: Mobile adoption among US physicians -- This report delves into physicians' adoption of smartphones and tablets over the years in addition to how they've used these devices at work. For the past two years, physician smartphone adoption has been relatively flat.

In-Depth: Revisiting Topol’s Top Ten Digital Health Targets -- On the five-year anniversary of Dr. Eric Topol's original digital health speaking tour, MobiHealthNews looks back at his predictions and how they have fared so far. We also caught up with Topol to discuss how his predictions looked to him in hindsight.

In-Depth: Pharma’s digital health opportunities -- Our most recent in-depth report is quickly becoming one of our most popular reads. In it we aggregate nearly all of our pharma-related digital health news reporting from the past six years. We also talked to a few pharma companies' innovation arms to discuss the digital health opportunity with them.

Our In-Depth series has generated an impressive amount of reader feedback so far -- and we are working to incorporate the reader suggestions we've already fielded to improve the series -- but, of course, we'd love more input.

Which topics would you like the MobiHealthNews team to hone in on for one of our future Friday editions? What are some areas of digital health that deserve considerably more attention than the daily newscycle allows? We have a number of ideas for investigational journalism pieces, but we could use more. Feel free to email me with any suggestions or leave them in the comments below.

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