Bringing together patients' perspectives on eHealth and mHealth
In 2016, the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK, helped to launch the innovative app game, Sea Hero Quest. 5 years on, its re-launch is aimed at the research community to build on the learnings from the original project. Research at scale Outside of Covid-related apps like the …
Digital Health Generation The recent “Digital Health Generation” report raised concerns about how young people in the UK use apps and other digital technologies to manage their health. Reaching teenagers On the plus side, the survey with more than 1000 English 11-18 year olds and …
The cold prevalence data shows that most families are affected in some way by the loss associated with miscarriage. Equally, it seems that most cultures find it hard to talk about. It’s also an issue that the health app industry has sometimes failed to address …
Autism Charities Advice On Apps We created myhealthapps.net because we believe patient groups are best placed to recommend apps from hundreds of thousands available. For example, the community of parent and patient organisations for autism offer advice on relevant apps and digital tools. Directory of …
US DIGITAL HEALTH ADOPTION SURVEY The digital health market in the US is quite volatile for a combination of regulatory, political and economic factors. However, it can still be useful to reflect on a market characterised by patient choice and advanced wearables, mHealth and eHealth …
Patient Groups Contribute to Regulation For Digital Health in Primary Care Have you seen the latest report into digital health primary care/General Practitioner health services by the UK Care Quality Commission? It suggests that although quality of care is improving, there are still significant hurdles …
Asthma digital health, what is next? As a huge therapy area, asthma has attracted a large number of poor quality `me too’ apps and poorly implemented digital health activities. But this year there could be a number of breakthroughs in asthma digital health and mHealth, …
Diet and nutrition apps can lead to positive behaviour change, study finds In a recent study of users of diet and nutrition apps, carried out by Brigham Young University (BYU), USA. 96% of respondents reported that using diet or nutrition apps increased their motivation to …
INSIDER’S VIEW OF PHARMA BARRIERS TO APP CREATION In this post we are looking at the insiders view on app creation and barriers. In a recent interview for Eye for Pharma, Sanofi’s Chief Data Officer, Milind Kamkolkar identified some clear reasons why most pharma apps …
PATIENT VIEW RESEARCH IDENTIFIES PATIENTS’ REASONS TO SHARE DATA – Deloitte Research by PatientView with 190 patient groups worldwide for Deloitte found that patients would be “willing” or “somewhat willing” to share their personal health data from apps if it is guaranteed that: Firstly, the …