Interview:
The Wireless Healthcare Horizon, with Duke's Gopal Chopra |
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"The real excitement for me here is [that] healthcare is now poised for change and healthcare is more amenable to change because we’ve created such awareness about its problems and its complexity. The healthcare provider network [and] vendor network are all discussing and active in the new mobile wireless capabilities of their technologies and technologies external to them.
"I think healthcare is about to take on a significant transformation. I think mobile and wireless will be credited for pushing a lot of the agendas."
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Interview:
Growing Older? There’s an App for That, with Omniscience Mobile's Jeff Lee |
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"I would classify two types of mobile technologies that people are following. One, of course, is the mobile-phone-based technology; apps that are used on the phone, technologies that are innate to the phone, sensors on the phone like an accelerometer that can be used to help manage one’s care.
"Then as a distinct category, I would look at connected biosensors that are not specific..."
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Outside Article :
Pfizer Asks Patients to Test Themselves |
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Pfizer announced its new Research on Electronic Monitoring of OAB Treatment Experience (REMOTE) project—a clinical trial for already-approved overactive bladder medication Detrol LA that is to be conducted entirely remotely, using cell phones and Internet access to recruit and follow trial participants over the next year or so.
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Outside Article :
Highest-Risk Mobile Medical Apps are Focus of FDA's Draft Guidance |
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Doctors who are using or recommending mobile apps can breathe a bit easier. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new draft guidance, published this morning, excuses a whole raft of lower-level health apps from the strictest Class II and III regulations.
Paul Sonnier of Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance shared, "Ultimately, this type of regulatory clarity by FDA [also] benefits consumers...[as such] apps may become more plentiful. FDA-cleared apps will be able to differentiate [which ones are the best], perhaps gaining a competitive advantage."
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Editor's Note
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"It gives me great pleasure and honor to invite you to our Third Annual Medical Innovation & Strategies conference at Duke University.
This year’s conference will focus on the ever dynamic uses of wireless technologies to improve consumer healthcare. Please join senior health care leaders in thought-provoking discussions concerning innovative solutions and paradigm shifts in the quest of improving healthcare outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs."
Ana Quinn, MBA
Associate Director, Business Development (HSM & MMCi)
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
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Industry Fast Fact
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"More than three-quarters of American doctors now have smartphones."
From the Slate.com article:
Should the FDA regulate smartphone medical apps?
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Upcoming Conference
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Join the Experts who are Shaping Consumer Healthcare:
Duke’s Health Sector Management (HSM) program is on the cutting edge of addressing the dynamic issues facing the health care industry today.
Its upcoming "Third Annual Medical Innovation & Strategies" conference at Duke University is bringing together the best minds in business, education and information technology to discuss innovative business strategies that will move the health care market forward.
October 12 , 2011:
Third Annual Medical Innovation & Strategies conference at Duke University
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Conference Testimonial
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"This was one of the best seminars I've been to in a long time. It delivered what it promised - and had information on the latest and greatest from some of the leaders in the field. It was intimate enough to be able to ask questions and have good dialogue."
-2010 Attendee
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Click here to join Duke’s HSM & MMCi Events group.
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Conference Fast Fact
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A full 94% of Speakers and Panelists received post-conference ratings of "Very Good" or "Excellent."
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About Duke University
Health Sector Management
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The Health Sector Management (HSM) MBA program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (FSB) is the largest, most comprehensive program of its kind among top-tier business schools.
Taught by world-renowned faculty, HSM courses balance theory and application - providing critical, highly relevant insight into the successful delivery of health-related products, services, and technologies.
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About the Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MMCi) |
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Now working professionals can avail themselves of Duke’s one-of-a-kind MMCi degree program, intentionally designed to develop a workforce armed with the knowledge and skills to lead the healthcare revolution. Starting in Fall of 2011, the program, which merges business, IT and medicine under one umbrella at Duke University's world-renowned Health Sector Management program, will convert to a weekend format.
Through courses like Clinical Informatics Strategy and Data, Information and Knowledge Modeling, Marketing Analysis and Organizational Design and Supply Chain Management, graduates acquire insight surrounding the intricacies of health information technology and strengthen their abilities to think strategically, practically and knowledgably across the many areas IT impacts.
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