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Patient-centered care 'flawed' with consumer focus
Despite the trend in the catchphrase, "patient-centered care" is a flawed way of putting it, wrote Charles L. Bardes of New York's Weill Cornell Medical College in a New England Journal of Medicine
M-health might take a lesson from a more tawdry industry
I've written plenty about mobile technology being a disruption to the status quo in healthcare and I produced a FierceHealthIT special report on disruptive forces in health IT not too long ago. But
Consumers, clinicians alike will drive m-health
Some people believe consumers will drive the mobile health "revolution." Others believe the impetus for change is coming from clinicians themselves. And then there's a third opinion: "Both, and for
Less than 10 percent in U.S. use smartphone apps for health
Despite the widespread availability of smartphone apps for health and medical purposes, just 9 percent of American adults with cell phones have downloaded apps to help them track or manage their own
Mobile apps on leading edge of 'potentially disruptive era'
Finally, a report on the mobile health industry that doesn't throw around pie-in-the-sky numbers and actually discusses healthcare and something close to the current reality. "We are currently in the
Mobile health companies need to prove value
A couple of debates keep raging in mobile healthcare, and a recent, widely publicized report from PricewaterhouseCoopers has helped to fan the flames. First off, what exactly is mobile healthcare? To
The more things change...
I'm right in between speaking engagements. I leave tomorrow for Toronto, where I'll present Thursday morning in at the Mobile Healthcare and Medicine Symposia , part of a fairly big deal called Mobile
Patients don't want to pay for remote health monitoring
Old habits--and mindsets--die hard. The attitude of American consumers toward remote health monitoring devices is the same as it is for all kinds of other healthcare products and services: I want it,
NCR survey: Majority of consumers want mobile, online options for payment, scheduling, test results
More than half of U.S. consumers queried in a recent poll by NCR Corp. would like to be able to manage healthcare accounts and pay bills online and on mobile devices. However, many wouldn't
Worldwide m-health market opportunity could reach $60 billion
We're going to Atlanta next week to cover HIMSS10. Our colleagues at FierceWireless--who also will be at HIMSS--got to go to the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last week. (Not that
