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Connected Health Business Models for Smart Home Platform Players

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  Editor's Note: Harry Wang is the Director of Health & Mobile Product Research at Parks Associates. He is also the founder and lead analyst of Parks Associates’ digital health research program since its inception in 2006. The smart home industry focuses on consumer use cases that charge a recurring monthly fee as the default revenue model for service providers. Equipment manufacturers usually earn revenues from product sales. Smart home platform providers can offer a
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Validic Unveils VitalSnap to Enable Real-Time Health Data Transfer from Non-Connected Devices

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Digital health platform Validic today unveiled VitalSnap™, a new mobile technology that enables users to easily record health data from their in-home device via their smartphone's camera at CES 2016. The goal is to take vital information from non-connecting devices that may never be sent to or viewed by a provider and  deliver this data seamlessly to healthcare organizations, helping overcome connectivity barriers that limit the overall care experience.  How It Works  A majority of medical
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Report: 40M Smartphone Owners Use at Least 1 Fitness, Wellness App

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More than 40 million smartphone owners are active users of at least one wellness or fitness app, according to recent Parks Associates research. The report, Mobile Carriers and Wireless Healthcare Opportunities examines market opportunities and challenges in the wireless healthcare market from the mobile operator’s perspective.  Findings The report finds about one in four heads of household in broadband households use a mobile app to track their fitness progress or calorie intake, and the
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HIT Innovation Founder Stories:Jakob Jønck, Co-Founder, Endomondo Pt.2

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First  edition of HIT Innovation Founder Stories, we speak with Jakob Nordenhof Jønck, Co-Founder of Endomondo, where Jakob shares his story of how three former McKinsey & Co. management consultants (all former semi or professional athletes) took their passion for active, healthy lifestyles and created Endomondo, a social fitness application that turns mobile phones into full-fledged personal trainers. Endomondo is a great example of how technology can be utilized as a tool to provide
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HIT Innovation Founder Stories:Jakob Jønck, Co-Founder, Endomondo

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There is an emerging community of digital health entrepreneurs utilizing technology innovation to help transform healthcare. In an effort to provide coverage of this growing community and inspire future digital health entrepreneurs, HIT Consultant has launched “HIT Innovation Founder Stories” where we will speak with a digital health founder to share their journey from inception to launch, obstacles/challenges, and lessons learned. In our first HIT Innovation Founder Stories, we speak with
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Video:Is Technology Changing the Doctor-Patient Relationship?

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With preventable medical conditions such as obesity continuing to grow so does the need for patient involved healthcare. The doctor-patient relationship is critically important to bridging the gap between passive patients and informed medical consumers. Innovative technologies are the enabling factor for this, but are they succeeding — and how long will it be before we start seeing significant changes? The following video explores this question with moderator, Zachary Bujnoch, Senior Industry
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