Is Digital Health Making an Impact on Healthcare?

Mobile health (mHealth) apps and telemedicine have the potential to lower costs and improve patient care by allowing closer collaboration between patients and healthcare providers. The increasing adoption of health apps and other tools means not only healthier, more informed patients, but a more robust market: mHealth technology is expected to grow to $60 billion in 2020—an increase of 33%. Is digital health the panacea it's made out to be, or are we just generating data for data's sake? Deneen Vojta, executive vice president of research and development for UnitedHealth Group, said it's too soon to say. "Digital health is worth investigating," she said. "We've seen a lot of healthy people leveraging devices to understand fitness. And we do see growing evidence in healthcare of organizations leveraging similar technology to improve care. We have to better understand how patients engage and study the outcomes. There are the early adopters, and there's the rest of us." Learn about the current state of digital health and why we need cybersecurity in this environment at the Medical Device Security Conference held in conjunction with MD&M West February 6–8, 2018. Johnson & Johnson hopes patients of all technical persuasions will embrace Health Partner, a new connected digital platform that guides patients through all steps of surgery, from consideration to rehab. A website provides articles and tools for patients debating surgery (Health Partner currently focuses on wei...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: MD & M West (Anaheim) Digital Health Source Type: news