Bringing together patients' perspectives on eHealth and mHealth
The UK charity, Macmillan Cancer Support has a long history of innovation in cancer care. In recent years some UK cancer patients have `Holistic Needs Assessments’ at key points in their journey, such as diagnosis or change of treatment. Typically, these are structured, face to …
Patient groups globally are not only helping their communities to deal with the pandemic, but striving to ensure that access to treatments and care continues. There’s a dual challenge of not only advocating to re-engage patients with services disrupted by Covid-19, but also taking opportunities …
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 …
World Hepatitis Day 28th July is World Hepatitis Day. In the lead-up to this, UK charity, the British Liver Trust, published its key report “The Alarming Rise of Liver Disease in the UK”. On the other side of the world we also look at how …
Which digital health skills gaps are biggest for patient groups? A recent Australian report highlighted that one of the biggest barriers to digital health was lack of skills. No surprises there. What is interesting is that the survey of 114 digital health start-ups said that …
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 …
OVERVIEW OF SUCCESSFUL DIGITAL HEALTH Recently, Experentia, an independent international experience design consultancy, reviewed some of the most used and most highly rated healthcare apps. Their review: embraced many aspects of digital health, from apps for patients and clinicians, through to wearables and ingestible sensors …
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, …
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 …