Knowing your customer (see next story): All the rage now in healthcare systems is adopting ‘lean’ processes originally developed for the manufacturing area, which involves process mapping, identifying non-value added areas and redesigning to eliminate waste of time and resources…. Read more'Lean' healthcare may not be the way to go
Don’t go for simple incremental innovation if you can be bold and disruptive Don’t look at mHealth, look at mobility in healthcare Don’t look at apps, look at entire systems HIT thinker Shahid Shah, CEO of Netspective and CTO/architect/advisor in… Read moreReal innovation: 'don't look at apps, look at entire systems'
Sensor-based and M2M technologies in European trials (one cutely named MonAMI) are working together to find their market. Forty developers of ‘ambient assisted living’ devices, such as DoorSure, WindowSure (doors and windows open/unlocked), AppSure (kettle or cooker on) and SUREZone… Read more'Ambient assisted living' in Europe
Compact, all inclusive and spot-on analysis of the First Big Question* (who pays?) in the US, written by someone new to us, Rene Quashie, senior counsel at a Washington law firm not new to us, EpsteinBeckerGreen. It confirms that for… Read moreWho pays for telehealth? Talkin' 'bout the First Big Question. (US)
Last week’s release of the Pew Research Center’s 2012 mobile health survey has generated considerable analysis of trends both in health information lookup and apps. Smartphones now top 50% of mobile phones in the US, and according to the CEA, the major trend in content and apps is health and fitness. Pew’s snapshot of the recent past outlined in FierceMobileHealthcare helps to confirm how the trend developed. Separating information-seeking from apps….
Brian Dolan in Mobihealthnews takes a more pessimistic view of the Pew survey data, maintaining that adoption as a whole is flat since 2010; only about 10% of mobile phone users have downloaded apps to track or manage their health. His discussion with Pew’s Associate Director Susannah Fox goes into why she believes that adoption will be trending upwards with smartphones, points out that some respondents may have not included ‘fitness’ as a health app, and the bright lights ahead (or is it an oncoming train?) of media coverage and doctors actually prescribing apps. Speaking of oncoming trains….
PatientView, which is described in this article as ‘the major specialist in the mapping of patient groups and their activities’ has created The European Directory of Health Apps 2012-2013. For 200 apps recommended by consumer groups and patient advocates, it… Read moreHealth app directory from PatientView (EU)
Editor Donna wandered over this afternoon to New York’s Union Square (where the lights are all on now) for the Consumer Electronics Association’s preview of International CES, the annual Las Vegas extravaganza held 8-11 January 2013. And no surprise, the excitement’s all about tablets and smartphones–but what is a little surprising is the CES emphasis on health and wellness as a growth area that is a result.
The projected growth of tablets is stunning:
According to CEA’s chief economist Shawn duBravac and head industry analyst Steve Koenig, applications around health, fitness and full fledged home health care have exploded as developers build out tablets–an unintended consequence of this explosive growth. Thus 2013 CES is devoting more TechZones around and including health and telehealth. The umbrella of Living in Digital Times includes TechZones Digital Health Summit (with 215 exhibitors), Silvers Summit and (new) Fitness Tech. Health also shows up in TechZones such as Robotics and Eureka Park for startups/early stage companies (the last including Affectiva and Scanadu recently covered here).
And after the talk there was some show ‘n’ tell for exhibitors….including an impressive debut…
New York City-headquartered Tunstall AMAC announced that it is expanding its call center operations based in Rhode Island to an eventual 250 staff. They have also negotiated space in economically challenged Pawtucket, locating in an ‘economically distressed’ area of town… Read moreTunstall's AMAC plans Rhode Island expansion; management changes
Clayton Christensen, who many of us know from ‘The Innovator’s Prescription’ on disruptive healthcare, in his New York Times article discusses the three-stage cycle of innovation that powers economic growth and jobs, and what has happened to break it. The… Read moreClayton Christensen on the broken circle of innovation–and funding
One of the barriers to wider adoption of eHealth and remote monitoring (aside from those organizations using mHealth for ‘no reason’) has been the difficulty of obtaining reliable ROI data. Although there are studies on effectiveness and ROI, they are… Read moreROI tool for telehealth monitoring (US)
