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FDA goes DTP(atient)

By on April 23, 2013 in Bio/life sciences, Design and health, Digital health, FDA, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Health literacy, Health marketing, Health policy, Health regulation, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Medical device, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Patient engagement, Pharmaceutical, Public health, Social media and health

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) launched its new website for and about patients, the Patient Network, with the tagline, “Bringing your voice to drug and device approval and safety.” With this move, the FDA moves toward social health, someplace where at least one-third of U.S. consumers already opine, shop, share personal info, crowdsource cures, [...]

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Bending the cost-curve: a proposal from some Old School bipartisans

By on April 22, 2013 in Accountable Care Organizations, Affordable Care Act, Business and health, Consumer-directed health, Electronic health records, Employers, Health benefits, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health insurance, Health IT, Health Plans, Health policy, Health politics, Health Quality, Health reform, Health regulation, Managed care, Medicare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Shopping and health, Value based health, Workplace wellness

Strange political bedfellows have come together to draft a formula for dealing with spiraling health care costs in the U.S. iin A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-Wide Cost Containment from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). The BPC was founded by Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell. This [...]

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An American Nanny State? Most Americans support government tactics addressing lifestyle impacts on chronic disease

By on March 20, 2013 in Behavior change, Chronic care, Chronic disease, Demographics and health, Design and health, Diabetes, Digital health, Exercise, Food and health, Health Consumers, Health disparities, Health engagement, Health regulation, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Noncommunicable disease, Nutrition, Obesity, Patient engagement, Popular culture and health, Prevention and wellness, Public health, Social media and health

  Most people like government policies targeting reducing tobacco use, requiring food manufacturers and restaurants to reduce salt content, and mandating schools to require 45 minutes of daily activity for students. A large majority of Americans (at least 8 in 10 people) support government actions to promote public health that stem chronic disease, from preventing cancer (89%) and [...]

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The Accountable Care Community opportunity

By on February 25, 2013 in Accountable Care Organizations, Business and health, Connected health, Design and health, Doctors, Employers, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health IT, Health policy, Health regulation, medical home, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Medication adherence, mHealth, Mobile health, Physicians, PPACA, Prevention and wellness, Remote health monitoring, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Value based health, Workplace wellness

“ACOs most assuredly will not…deliver the disruptive innovation that the U.S. health-care system urgently needs,” wrote Clay Christensen, godfather of disruptive innovation, et. al., in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal of February18, 2013. In the opinion piece, Christensen and colleagues make the argument that Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as initially conceived won’t address [...]

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Managing the abundance of mHealth apps in the urban flea market

By on February 13, 2013 in Chronic care, Chronic disease, FDA, Health care information technology, Health care marketing, Health engagement, Health IT, Health regulation, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Internet and Health, media and health, Medical device, Medication adherence, mHealth, Mobile health, Personalized medicine, Prevention and wellness, Public health, Social media and health

The proliferation of mobile health (mHealth) apps appears to be an abundant cornucopia of “lite” tools that look simple to access and easy to use. But this growing menu of a la carte choices that promise to keep us healthy, track our numbers, and access useful health information can also, in the words of three [...]

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