Written by Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD | Founder of Rimidi In medicine, we often talk about meeting a patient where they are. Usually, this is in reference to their health literacy levels or their readiness to follow a treatment plan. It’s more challenging to physically meet patients where they are—especially [...]
Hi! We haven’t formally met, but I’m Ashley Durkin-Rixey, director of communications at ACT | The App Association. I joined the App Association in August of 2018. This is a personal story about digital health tools that begins with roller derby. I played competitive roller derby for about eight years [...]
Recently, during HIMSS19 in Orlando, FL, I had the pleasure of presenting on the new developments in Medicare’s approach to incentivizing the use of digital health tools in care delivery across several of its beneficiary programs. The updates I shared during my session are the result of years of cross-stakeholder [...]
On February 1, 2019, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) convened a multistakeholder dialogue on the role of artificial intelligence/augmented intelligence (AI) in healthcare in Washington, DC. The purpose of this dialogue was to address the role of machine learning and AI in improving healthcare, preventing hospitalizations, [...]
In the DC bubble, we like buzzwords. Recently, “digital health” joined “blockchain” and “artificial intelligence” on a growing list of phrases that make us feel hip. But what does digital health really mean? To the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), it does not mean turning everyone into their own healthcare professionals, [...]