Guiding Developers through Foundational Federal Laws Applicable to Mobile Health Technology Guiding Developers through Foundational Federal Laws Applicable to Mobile Health Technology

Guiding Developers through Foundational Federal Laws Applicable to Mobile Health Technology

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As you design, market, and distribute a mobile health (mHealth) app that your customers will use to collect, share, use, or maintain individuals’ health information, it is likely you have questions about what U.S. federal laws apply. You may also wonder which federal agencies oversee various aspects of mHealth — including how this varies by how individuals, their health plan, or health care providers will use the app.  Depending on who is expected to use an app and how they will get and use the app (e.g., The post Guiding Developers through Foundational Federal Laws Applicable to Mobile...
Two Sides of the AI/ML Coin in Health Care Two Sides of the AI/ML Coin in Health Care

Two Sides of the AI/ML Coin in Health Care

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As we’ve previously discussed, algorithms—step by step instructions (rules) to perform a task or solve a problem, especially by a computer—have been widely used in health care for decades.  One clear use of these algorithms is through evidence-based, clinical decision support interventions (DSIs). Today, we see a rapid growth in data-based, predictive DSIs, which use models created using...

Getting the Best out of Algorithms in Health Care

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The same basic technology that can predict what movie you might want to watch, what song you might want to listen to, or what item you might want to buy online, can also predict the onset of diseases, forecast costs of care, and recommend...
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Reducing the Clinician Burden: Shaping Health IT as an Asset

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Health IT has helped drive progress in health care over the last decade, but it has also introduced a variety of different challenges, many reported by the clinical community. As we explored in our latest article published in the Journal of the...
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