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Want Your Health App To Succeed? Consider These 8 Behavior-Change Design Tips
If you want your health app to flourish, keep these tips in mind. These techniques have an important goal. They’ll get people to use your app for a long period of time. And that’s important when users are trying to achieve results in their health journeys. We recently examined a few reasons why so many digital […]
Design-Led Engineering
Why Digital Health Apps Fail And What You Can Do About It
The global mobile medical app market is exploding. It was worth $4.2 billion in 2020. In 2027, that number is expected to reach $20.7 billion. Even with all that growth, many digital health apps aren’t effective at creating positive health outcomes in the lives of people. Here’s why. The digital health industry is booming, but […]
Design-Led Engineering
Engage Consumer: A New Foundation to Break the Mold
A decade ago, digital transformation in healthcare was focused on product features and large-scale transformation was often cost-prohibitive. Ideas were solved as engineering problems with technology tacked on, leading to wasteful spending and frequently failed initiatives. However, over the past two decades, growing consumerism and advances in technology have necessitated a shift in the status […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
The Public Health (Data) in All of Us
Lack of data access left ALL of us handicapped in our ability to combat COVID-19. The need for data sharing is unlike anything we’ve experienced and cross-communication is more important than ever. As we look to our future, what public health-inspired models and platforms are not only important for the greater good, but also critical […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
Will COVID-19 Prove a Catalyst for Value-Based Care?
Brad Smith, Deputy Administrator and Director of The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and Emad Rizk, MD, Chairman, President and CEO of Cotiviti, mic up to discuss the latest payment models making waves, why the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is likely to accelerate the move toward value-based care, and what Smith and CMMI are […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
Interoperability Is Coming, but Is It All That We Need?
The Interoperability rule potentially floods people with information about their health and, frankly, couldn’t have come at a better time. The pandemic may have just pushed us over the interoperability edge, so let’s decide what we really need and how to make it happen because the show of interoperability must go on. This discussion originally […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
CareTalk Podcast
CareTalk is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare system. Join host John Driscoll (CEO, CareCentrix) and this week’s special guest Alan Lotvin, MD (Executive Vice President and President of CVS Caremark, CVS Health) as they debate COVID-19 policies, drug prices, digital health, Medicare, racial disparities and more. […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
Dr. Al Has Seen You and Here’s the Issue…
We’ve been singing about a physician shortage for years and while telehealth has tapped into enormous underutilized capacity, emerging models are leveraging the physician with the AI-driven “doctor inside.” So, do we really have a shortage of resources or will we let machines do a portion of the work AND help us prevent issues upstream? […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
The New Deal: Innovation Investing
With U.S. digital health companies raising billions in funding during the first six months of 2020, the thesis around digital health has never been stronger. While the pandemic has offered us a glimpse into a better healthcare system, many questions loom over the future of healthcare investments. This discussion originally aired during the 7th Annual […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
Leaning In: How Payers Are Responding to the Pandemic, Systemic Racism and Health Disparities
Issues of epic proportion are forcing payers, providers, policymakers and the populace alike to challenge the status quo, especially when it comes to fair and equal access to healthcare and coverage. Sen. Bill Frist, M.D., and Florida Blue President and CEO Pat Geraghty get real about the social dilemmas dogging progress and what healthcare payers, […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
Reimagining Healthcare
The future is now playing. As healthcare’s leaders we are responsible for being at the forefront of change, especially during times of uncertainty. But, how do we overcome our current obstacles while still preparing for what’s ahead? This discussion originally aired during the 7th Annual Emids Healthcare Summit in November 2020. Speakers Moderator: Prashanth Reddy, […]
Emids Healthcare Summit
The Tipping Point of Mainstream Mental Health
Despite the proliferation of new apps, we haven’t even come close to a mental health system that serves both rising demand and societal health. When will we acknowledge mental health as a foundational part of healthcare and begin to manage the data and reimbursement with a preventative and early intervention mindset? This discussion originally aired […]