Top Story

From a snapshot of the mHealth investment landscape to defining population health: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week

Historic Supreme Court decisions aside, there were several other stories that MedCity News reporters covered this week, from doctors behaving badly to the multiple perspectives on population health. Check them out.

It was a historic week with the SCOTUS rulings on federal subsidies for ACA and the legalization of same sex marriage. But there were several other stories that MedCity News reporters covered this week, from doctors behaving badly to the multiple perspectives on population health. Check them out below.

1. In a snapshot of $1.3B mHealth investment landscape, concierge care and telemedicine take up more real estate

A look at CB insights’ latest report on mobile health startups and growth stage companies shows the dominance of on demand concierge care and telemedicine services. Teladoc’s preparations for its public debut reflect the confidence in this sector of digital health that the market has sufficiently matured enough to support the growth of these businesses. Altogether, the mobile health companies included in the report raised $1.3 billion in 114 financing deals.

2. Malpractice suit shows power of the smartphone to hold providers accountable

Add another nail in the coffin of paternalistic medicine, though paternalism may be a zombie or at least a Rasputin that refuses to die.

As the Washington Post reported Tuesday, a Virginia jury last week slapped an anesthesiologist with a $500,000 fine for defamation and medical malpractice for insulting a sedated patient during a colonoscopy, then falsifying the medical record.

3. Five conspicuous omissions from MIT Tech Review’s 50 smartest companies

We know who made the cut in the latest MIT Technology Review list of the 50 Smartest Companies of 2015.

But there were a few conspicuous omissions – take Theranos, for instance, or Alexion Pharmaceuticals – from the otherwise meaty list of healthcare and life sciences companies that dominated the list.

4. Regulatory classification 101: A guide to how your medical device will be classified

What I am about to share with you is a guide to medical device regulatory classification.

In this guide, I will provide you with a step-by-step approach for determining how your medical device will be classified by U.S. FDA, European Commission, and Health Canada.

Getting a basic understanding of regulatory product classification will be invaluable to your efforts to bring new products to market.

5. What does population health really mean? Healthcare executives pipe in

Everyone in health IT is talking about “population health.” The focus is clearly shifting toward more accountability for healthcare outcomes, but what does this new buzzword actually mean for healthcare providers in population health management?

Population health was defined by David Kindig and Greg Stoddart as “the health outcome of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.”

Photo: Flickr user Matthew Field

Shares0
Shares0