Today’s clinical trial recruitment model efforts are missing the mark. Here’s how pharma can fix it, ePatientFinder’s Tom Dorsett explains.Drug development is risky business. It takes years and billions of dollars to jump through the phases of development before a physician gets to scribble down a script for a patient. That’s if the drug ever makes it that far; about 85 percent will fail in clinical trials. It doesn’t help that today’s current clinical trial system is deeply flawed, especially
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3 Trends Driving Healthcare Data Analytics Over The Next 3-5 Years
The road to improving healthcare is paved with analytics, but where exactly will all that data take providers? LexisNexis Health Care’s Jeff Klein shares his insights.Data—it’s the undeniable force disrupting and changing everything in healthcare. Still, the question remains: how will investing in HIT to make use of all that data pay off for providers? Well, for one thing, it will prevent providers from having to pay the ultimate price of doing nothing. However, not just any old data platform
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Healthcare is Riddled With Throwing Tech on Top of Broken Processes
Co-founder of Healthfundr’s Quad Aim Fund Dave Chase talks about healthcare moving beyond the Triple Aim, and why it’s imperative health-tech developers and investors follow suit.It’s time to let go of the status-quo. That may sound like a great slogan for a t-shirt, but it’s more like a resounding battle cry for U.S. healthcare at large. Patients, providers, health-tech developers and investors need to recognize the failings of today’s system to prompt and promote real change—and it’s going to
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Five Big Challenges Hospitals Face When Developing Mobile Apps
Embracing innovation isn’t always easy for hospitals when it comes to developing mobile apps, but there are solutions. Kinvey’s CEO Sravish Sridhar explains.Improving outcomes and reducing costs: is there an app for that? Well, there could be. In fact, you can build one. But Kinvey’s Sravish Sridhar cautions health organizations to be careful when it comes to app development. Although you can’t save money without spending some first, the wrong approach to digital innovation could end up costing
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From Startups to Success: What Does It Take to Innovate in Digital Health?
Blueprint Health’s Jean-Luc Neptune shares his insights on what makes a good digital health startup and what it takes to make it in the competitive space.Innovation is inspiring. It’s what drives the evolution of technology. Take digital health, for example: billions of investment dollars have poured into the space in support of technologies slated to transform healthcare delivery. But fresh ink on a blueprint and enthusiasm only gets you so far, and surprisingly, investment dollars may not take
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Apple CareKit: Are Consumers Ready for Tech-Enabled Home Health?
Deloitte’s Harry Greenspun talks about what research is revealing when it comes to consumers and caregivers plugging into tech-enabled home health.What about the doctor-patient relationship? This is the question that many whisper yet few ask directly as technology gives greater rise to remote treatment methods. Take CareKit, released from Apple, Inc. in March, which allows users to collect medical data and share with physicians. Will what’s achievable on screen disrupt the crucial care that
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5 Best Practices for Leveraging Analytics in Population Health
McKesson’s Dr. Michael Blackman explains why actionable insights begin with strategic data management.For healthcare providers, value-based care isn’t just an operational incentive anymore, it’s now an imperative for basic survival. As a result, many executives now consider it vitally important to redesign health system services for population health, according a recent Advisory Board Company Survey.In fact, 52 percent of those surveyed were concerned about population health, making it the
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What FHIR Means for Interoperability and Its Potential in Population Health
Is FHIR the answer to healthcare interoperability problem? A look at the new protocols potential and why it could enhance pop health efforts, with insights from Wellcentive’s Phillip Burgher.Health information technology’s (HIT’s) potential may be expanding, but so is the size of its greatest challenge and elephant in the room—interoperability. The industry is riding a wave of evolution fueled by digital connection, yet there has never been a greater disconnect when it comes to utilizing digital
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6 Recent Digital Health Innovations to Watch
At HIT Consultant, we are always thinking about how digital innovation is impacting healthcare. As a result, we’ve compiled a list of innovations that have the potential to create greater change when it comes to the application and practice of healthcare in our series: HIT Consultant’s Selected Six Digital Health Innovations.Take a look at what we’ve chosen for May’s selected six, including a genomic search engine with fishy inspiration, a smartwatch that turns your skin into a touchscreen, and
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Jean-Luc Neptune Outlines Blueprint Health’s Approach to Digital Health Innovation
Blueprint Health’s Jean-Luc Neptune explains what makes the accelerator tick and where he sees digital health innovation headed in healthcare.The tale of how digital innovations will revolutionize U.S. healthcare has yet to be fully told, but by now, we all know of its blockbuster beginning. Billions of investment dollars have poured into the space, yet building longevity in the market may be a different story for innovators all together.Last year, an Accenture study proposed more than half (51
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