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What is digital health? Digital health is mainframe turned mobile, and it hit its cardinal stride in the crosswalk between technology and medicine. Now, it’s everywhere. From sensors to apps to platforms, most of the wireless tools that aim to make you healthier fall under the digital health umbrella. Sometimes referred to as mHealth, mobile … Via nrip 
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I’ve long been skeptical about the direct-to-consumer approach in digital health and of those who push slick apps and gadgets to a market that wants simple rather than flashy. “The vast majority of healthcare spending comes not from workout freaks and the worried well, but from chronic diseases and acute care,” I wrote in a particularly inflammatory columnin February. Now I’m starting to believe that some DTC products are finding markets in the limited but potentially highly lucrative niches of military personnel and elite athletes. Via JP DOUMENG
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The market for devices, software and services is set to grow by 142 per cent over the next five years in the US alone as more people embrace the idea of taking active digital control of their health and wellbeing. Via Parag Vora
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Will we see a lot of digital health companies bite the dust in the next few years?
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To request an interview with Dr. Samir Damani, a practicing cardiologist and founder and CEO of MD Revolution, send an email to MDRevolution@chempetitive.com...
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Don Tapscott (CEO of the Tapscott Group) speaks about a new generation of digital consumers work, play and collaborate in a totally new way. The traditional 4 P's of Marketing (Product, Place, Price and Promotion) are replaced by a new paradigm for marketing fueled by customers being armed with information like never before and actually being inside the companies' business networks.
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Entrepreneur, investor or interested health consumer?
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HbA1c as a measure of diabetes of Diabetes Control. This video explains how is HbA1c made, what a good control should be and how does HbA1c translates to mean daily glucose.
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Discover how companies are creating sustainable business models using proven strategies in this special keynote delivered by a pivotal digital health leader and advisor.
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Livongo Health™, which launched earlier today, is announcing the availability of Livongo for Diabetes, its new consumer digital health platform that provides real-time information, personalized tools and a connected support network to empower people with diabetes to live better.
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With the CDC projecting that 1/3 of Americans could have diabetes by the year 2050, Art Ulene, MD, discusses strategies to reward healthy behaviors and stigmatize unhealthy ones like those that lead to diabetes.
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The objectives of this talk are to: 1) summarize the evidence-base on psychological variables that may affect teens' type 1 diabetes self-care; 2) understand behavioral mechanisms that may impede self-care in adolescents; and 3) recognize the critical elements of effective behavioral interventions targeting improved self-management. It is intended for people who are not as familiar with the adolescents type 1 diabetes psychosocial literature, including studies on improving adherence and diabetes control.
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Top 10 Superfoods - Healthy Foods You Shouldn't Do Without
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CES is upon us again. According to the Boston Globe, the Las Vegas consumer electronics show is dedicating 40 percent more floor space to digital health than last year and more than 300 digital health companies are exhibiting. Whether or not those stats are illustrative, digital health is still a more popular topic at CES than it ever has been. And with more and more big companies like Sony and LG getting into fitness and activity tracking, even the definition of a digital health company is blurring. Via Parag Vora
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As pharma companies confront the digital health wave and contemplate their digital health strategy, I see four high-level options.
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Suppliers of digital health solutions looking to gain entry to the public health care market should first target their services at improving consumer lifestyles, a health care industry consultant has said. Via Parag Vora
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A recent international survey by the McKinsey & Company consulting firm addresses some myths about consumer use of digital healthcare services. Via nrip
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Dallas-based consulting firm Parks Associates split the burgeoning digital health consumer market into four distinct segments in a recent survey.
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In this TCS Global Trend Study (http://www.tcs.com/digitalstudy), we see how over 600 companies across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America are responding to win the loyalty of the new digital mobile consumer.
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Burrill Conference on Personalized Medicine 9/27/2010
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In this seminar presentation from March 17, 2014, Larry An, M.D., U-M associate professor of internal medicine and director of the Center for Health Communications Research, discusses ongoing innovations and opportunities in the digital health landscape. He also considers how we can make big data more meaningful, and how we can more effectively communicate risk given the new tools and the surge of new health information available in recent years.
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Pre-ACA: no access to our own medical records, optionless insurance and unaffordable coverage. Post-ACA: retail healthcare, new exchanges and access to our own private medical records. Explore how digital health is delivering practical solutions to the ACA challenges and giving the consumer the power of knowledge and choice.
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The Time 2 Do More in Diabetes™ program aimed to better understand attitudes, awareness and behaviors of people with type 2 diabetes and physicians and identify ways to improve the management of type 2 diabetes. In this video, Daniel, a fictional person with type 2 diabetes, shares his story from diagnosis to how he overcame challenges to improve the management of his condition.
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Good Morning, My name is Eliot LeBow. I am a licensed psychotherapist in the state of New York as well as an emotional health and wellness advisor for the American Diabetes Association. I have a private practice on the upper Westside of NYC, working with clients on diabetic & non-diabetic related life issues.
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Currently 100 million Americans are pre-diabetic or diabetic, and one in three kids born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes. Neal Barnard, clinical researcher and founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), identifies the causes of this serious issue and advises us how we can fight these statistics.
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