Hello and welcome to DigiHealth Informer Lite. This free daily email newsletter is produced by Enspektos, a digital health innovation consultancy. Each weekday you'll receive a selection of crowdsourced digital health knowledge and insights culled from thousands of high-quality posts published by health executives, medical professionals and others on Twitter. You'll often learn about reports, analysis and research focusing on wearables, Big Data, genomics and other topics that you may not have seen previously. We hope you find this publication informative and useful. Please share! SXSW 2015 Recap: The Next Wave of Digital Health The next wave of health tech is about deploying care resources only WHEN they are needed. People are more likely to engage with the health app when they need to measure or track an illness. Having the data delivered to a healthcare professional at that moment in time can help further the conversation and allow for more actionable time with the doctor. Click Here to Read Full Text Source: makovsky.com Date Accessed: March 17, 2015 -Questioning the Value of Health Apps Amid a proliferation of such apps, physicians and federal regulators are sounding an alarm, saying that programs claiming to diagnose or treat medical conditions may be unreliable and even dangerous. “There’s just no plausible medical way that some of these apps could work,” said Nathan Cortez, an expert in medical technology law and regulation at Southern Methodist University’s law school in Dallas. Click Here to Read Full Text Source: New York Times Date Accessed: March 17, 2015 -10 Wearables and IoT Companies To Watch In 2015 According to Gartner, Internet of Things (IoT) vendors will earn more than $309 billion by 2020. However, most of those earnings will come from services. Gartner also estimates that by 2020, the IoT will consist of 26 billion devices and those devices, Cisco believes will end up dominating the Internet by 2018. Click Here to Read Full Text Source: wtvox.com Date Accessed: March 17, 2015 -Two awesome developments that will make Google a leader in wearables Both Apple and Google are investing lots to be a leader in the wearables sector. The challenge is which one is making the right calls at this early juncture. Over the last 6 days, there were two announcements on the Android Wear front that make me believe that, while this is a multi-year battle in its earliest stages, Google has the lead on delivering a more compelling wearable experience. Click Here to Read Full Text Source: businessinsider.com Date Accessed: March 17, 2015 -Quick Links: Learn About the Premium DigiHealth Informer Service | Advertise in This Newsletter | Share this info. Forward this issue to someone else: http://us4.forward-tofriend.com/forward?u=b7466abc9ebd2f274553ff86b&id=cbbb903075&e=[UNIQID] Have you received this issue from a friend or colleague? Learn how you can subscribe to DigiHealth Informer Lite by clicking here. DigiHealth Informer Lite is proudly powered by Enspektos, LLC.
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