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Improving Health Through
mHealth and Connected Health Initiatives
The Changing State of the Industry
CONTENTS
Richard Scarfo,
Vice President,
Personal Connected
Health Alliance
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Driven by the challenge to make healthcare more affordable, efficient, and effective, the life-sciences
industry is undergoing a transformative change. mHealth, telehealth, and connected health initiatives,
which have the capacity to provide and deliver care at the right time and the right place, need to be part
of the transformation.
Investor interest in mHealth technologies is at an all-time high. According to a recent annual report by
Mercom Capital Group, funding and M&A activity for the health IT sector in 2014 more than doubled coming in at $4.7 billion, compared with $2.2 billion in 2013. Areas with significant growth were mHealth companies (341%), telehealth (297%), data analytics (146%), and wearables (136%).
Technology is connecting patients and providers and delivering healthcare insights outside of traditional medical settings, which is fundamentally transforming the way healthcare is delivered and managed.
Mobile and digital devices, such as smartphones, tablets, health monitors and sensors, and fitness
trackers are gathering and collecting information so that both patients and healthcare providers (HCPs)
can make better-informed healthcare decisions.
In the new connected health model, healthcare providers and payers will be able to understand how
well a patient’s condition is being managed over time, rather than on a per-visit view. This desire for a
holistic view encompasses the entire healthcare delivery system from individual patients, to population
health, to how a treatment manages an entire disease state or condition.
Life-sciences companies have tremendous opportunities to be part of the mix, to engage in mHealth
and connected health initiatives, and partner with patients and HCPs to change how healthcare is
delivered.
Knowing that change can only happen through collaboration, at the recent 6th annual mHealth Summit
in Washington, D.C., executives from across the healthcare ecosystem, including patient and caregiver
advocates, providers, payers, entrepreneurs, and life-sciences companies came together for the 2nd
Annual Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy and Life Sciences Roundtable to discuss how mHealth and connected
health initiatives can be leveraged to deliver improved patient outcomes and value beyond the pill.
This publication provides a snapshot of how mHealth initiatives are delivering value beyond the pill
and how collaborative initiatives are transforming the delivery of healthcare through connected health
and supporting the mission and work of life-sciences companies.
Improving Health Through mHealth and
Connected Health Initiatives
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Richard Scarfo, Personal Connected Health
Alliance
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Tim Davis, Exco InTouch
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The Transformative Role of Mobile
and Connected Health
Patient-centricity and Mobile and
Connected Health
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Roslyn F. Schneider, MD, and Wendy Mayer, Pfizer
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Case Study: Improving Care Coordination
for Mental Health Patients
Karen Parrish, IBM
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Case Study: Partnership for Medication
Adherence and Policy Change
Joel White, Prescriptions for a Healthy
America
Matthew Quinn, Intel
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Case Study: Me&MyCOPD Partnership
Centered on COPD Patients
Case Study: Small Steps to Improve
Consumer Health and Wellness
Adam Pellegrini, Walgreens
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The Transformative Role of Mobile and Connected Health
Matthew Quinn
East Coast Managing
Director, Healthcare and
Life Sciences
Intel Corporation
Second, Quinn says it’s imperative to build
Mobile and connected technologies have transformed industries, such as banking and retail, and tools people want to use. “Start with human-centhey have the potential to transform the delivery of tered design and build tools with the target pophealthcare. The healthcare delivery system is rap- ulation in mind,” he says. “Problems with
idly changing and requires new and innovative adoption and sustained use come from not truly
business models and tools to succeed. With understanding how the patient or HCP will use
greater emphasis on providing precision care and the tool, this means re-thinking the development
tying care to enhancing patient outcomes, the time process to incorporate the end user.”
With any opportunity, there are inevitable chalis now for life-sciences companies to embrace
lenges, and Quinn sees two primary barriers in
mHealth and connected health technologies.
“Connecting patients to the healthcare delivery realizing broad use of mHealth and connected
system will profoundly impact the way care is deliv- health initiatives.
The first challenge is interoperability. A frameered,” says Matthew Quinn, East Coast Managing
work of standards is essential to ensure
Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Intel
interoperability for collecting, sharing, and
Corporation. “The most important stakeanalyzing data. Moving forward, an open
holders in the delivery of healthcare are
platform and standards will allow
patients and families and in the curfor meaningful analysis of data
rent system these stakeholders are
from devices, wearables, and other
under-represented.”
The shift to a valuetechnologies.
The interest in mHealth and conbased healthcare
The second challenge is the abilnected health is being driven by the
system requires
ity
to include public and private
realization that one treatment does
companies to
clouds to facilitate data sharing and
not fit all and that what works for
offer services to
to
manage infrastructure costs. The
one patient may not be effective for
support providers
value
of data increases when the
another. “There is growing appreciin selecting the
number
of collaborators increases
ation that we’re all different from a
appropriate
and its ROI increases with each
genomics and proteomics perspectreatment and to
proper
re-use. To ensure greater
tive, as well as from a behavioral
support patients to
collaboration,
Quinn says organizaone, in terms of motivation, complistay on treatment.
tions must plan to share data withance, and adherence,” Quinn says.
“Technology tools allow us to bridge these gaps in their own organizations and across partners.
This should be reflected in organizational culture
and deliver custom approaches to healthcare.”
With the shift in the healthcare system to a and information technology architecture.
Quinn believes interoperability challenges can be
value-based model, life-sciences companies need
to offer services to support healthcare providers overcome by working together and through the lead(HCPs) in selecting the appropriate treatment and ership of organizations such as the Personal
Connected Health Alliance, Continua, and the IEEE
to support patients to stay on treatment.
According to Quinn, there are several key factors Open ICE Alliance, bringing groups together to adopt
life-sciences companies should consider as they standards and agree to create an open platform.
He says the more difficult challenges are culengage in mHealth and connected health initiatives.
First, life-sciences companies should consider tural. “We should be working together in a collabnew partners in the healthcare ecosystem as they orative ecosystem,” Quinn says. “The role of
reimagine the role they can play in the delivery of technology companies, users, and purchasers
healthcare. “Successful collaborations are built should be to collaborate and optimize the overall
around a common mission and an understanding strategy not to sub-optimize individual compoand appreciation of the overlaps among the play- nents. If a few companies show success by parters in healthcare delivery,” Quinn says. “In seek- nering, others will follow. These experiences can
ing out new partners, companies will find more be used to form business cases to convince mancommonalities, especially in a world focused on agement to go forth with future mHealth and connected health initiatives.”
value-based payment.”
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Patient-centricity and Mobile and Connected Health
The environment that life-sciences companies oper- Opportunities for mHealth
ate in is changing. There are rapid advances in sciand connected health
ence and technology; patients are taking more
mHealth and connected health have many opporactive roles in their healthcare; and reimbursement
practices are focusing on the value delivered, rather tunities to impact the health and well-being of
than the amount of services provided. This shifting patients and consumers. There are challenges to
landscape requires a greater focus on the patient, work through, and opportunities for life-sciences
one that goes beyond the pill or treatment to a companies to collaborate with healthcare providers,
broader approach that focuses on understanding patient advocacy groups, payers, and technology
patients’ challenges and needs and to delivering companies on solutions.
“Increasingly patients are playing a bigger role
information and tools that meet their needs.
in managing their health,” says Wendy Mayer,
“Our group is charged with collecting, synVP, Worldwide Innovation, Pfizer. “Ultimately
thesizing, developing, and implementing a
patients have to take their medications and
framework to better involve patients,” says
follow advice to impact their health
Roslyn Schneider, MD, Global Patient
and well-being. Patients also have
Affairs Lead, Pfizer Medical.
greater needs for health information;
Schneider offers three points to
Successful patientmHealth makes information easier to
consider as companies develop a
centric approaches
access and more understandable.”
patient-centric approach to product
have collaboration
mHealth engages patients and
development:
at the core.
easily
captures and shares personal
Understand what is important
The greater the
health data. With appropriate securito patients.
understanding and
ty measures to protect patient inforEvaluate if science or technolotransparency
mation and privacy, tailored
gy can help achieve the goal.
between all parties,
information
can be provided back to
Assess how regulatory authorthe more likely to
patients and HCPs. This is an opporities view the initiative’s goals
develop impactful
tunity to learn about patient and conor outcomes.
solutions.
sumer needs, to provide relevant
Two challenges for life-sciences
companies in adopting a patient-centric approach information and resources, and to connect in a
are communications and privacy, which can be meaningful manner.
According to Mayer, once data are captured
interpreted as medical advice early in a product’s
development and could appear to promote its use another challenge is providing feedback and
insights to patients on what the data mean and
before it is approved.
“Companies need to outline how they want to con- actions they should take. “An overwhelming
nect with patients and what information they should amount of data can be collected and a primary chalexchange,” Schneider says. “We need to connect with lenge for consumers is to make sense of what this
patients in a manner that complies with regional and means,” Mayer says.
Incentivizing patients to remain engaged in their
local regulations and the company’s standards.
Additionally, a patient-centered approach takes time healthcare is an important aspect of a successful
and commitment. We have to start with what we initiative. To sustain healthy behaviors, patients are
have and build on it. We can’t wait until we have all required to be engaged in their healthcare on a
daily basis. This can lead to data fatigue.
the tools and standards.”
“A critical next step is to move beyond what indiPatient-centric approaches are complex, and the
greater the understanding and transparency vidual technologies can do to creating an ecosysbetween all parties the more likely to develop tem, or a common platform, that allows
impactful solutions. “We may not be able to meet technologies to work together, provide easily
all needs today, but we can work together to begin digestible information to patients and consumers,
implementing changes to make a difference in the and to help patients and consumers live healthier
lives,” Mayer says.
health and lives of patients,” Schneider says.
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Global Patient Affairs Lead
Pfizer Medical
Wendy Mayer
VP, Worldwide Innovation
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Case Study:
Improving Care Coordination for Mental Health Patients
Karen Parrish
Vice President, Industry
Solutions
IBM
IBM and Otsuka are partnering to improve care
coordination in the mental health community. The
two companies are collaborating with the South
Florida Behavioral Health Network in Miami-Dade
County to pilot a solution aimed at improving the
coordination of care for a population that tends to
use various healthcare and social care providers.
The primary goals of the partnership are to
reduce hospital readmissions for patients with
mental health problems; reduce the number of reincarcerations for patients with mental health problems; develop treatment plans for individuals so
they get the care they need; and create and share
health records for individuals so care can be better
coordinated across providers.
According to a 2011 paper published in the journal Health Affairs, the United States spent $113 billion — 5.6% of total healthcare spending — on
mental healthcare treatment in 2005. Furthermore,
a 2006 study by the Justice Department's Bureau of
Justice Statistics found that more than half of all
prison and jail inmates, including 56% of state prisoners, 45% of federal prisoners, and 64% of local
jail inmates, were found to have mental health
problems.
This collaborative initiative is leveraging technology to connect care and establish treatment
standards, while maintaining patient privacy and
security. The solution is designed to connect
providers of mental health services, including
healthcare systems, payers, community mental
health centers, hospitals, criminal justice systems,
and social program organizations to help create
more comprehensive patient health records.
“Our hope is that by providing the right infrastructure to connect all of the providers in the system, patients will receive more holistic care,” says
Karen Parrish, Vice President of Industry Solutions
in IBM’s Software Group. “Our focus is on applying
technology to make healthcare smarter. The system
provides HCPs with valuable information regarding
patients’ healthcare and the social services they
may be using or have been offered. This information takes the conversation between provider and
patient to another level because the provider has a
more comprehensive understanding about what is
going on with the patient.”
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Challenge:
Lack of coordinated care for patients with mental
health problems, a population that tends to use
various healthcare and social care providers.
Goals:
The primary goals of the partnership are to
reduce hospital readmissions and the number of
re-incarcerations for patients with mental health
problems.
Solution:
Leverage technology to:
Connect care among healthcare and social
care providers.
Establish treatment standards.
Create comprehensive patient health records.
Maintain patient privacy and security.
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The community-based project, which was
launched in November 2014, marks the first application of the new IBM and Otsuka custom-developed software and change management solution
for the life-sciences industry.
The technology platform combines software to
coordinate care, and various data management
tools to improve the following:
Utilization management, including eligibility,
enrollment, and consent.
Care coordination across clinical and social
programs settings.
Insights into patient risk factors, crisis onset,
crisis patterns, and costs.
Patient engagement in their care management plan.
Organizational change management support.
“This is a transformational initiative,” Parrish
says. “The healthcare industry is not used to sharing, and this is a major shift. Providers have to
come together to help patients. As we began working on this initiative there were significant concerns
about privacy and data security, which we were
able to work through. We learned that the primary
obstacle is the culture, not the technology.”
Upon successful completion of the initial program in South Florida, the companies intend to
expand the initiative internationally.
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Case Study:
Me&MyCOPD Partnership Centered on COPD Patients
Challenge:
In the UK it is estimated that 1 million individuals
currently have COPD, which results in 115,000
emergency admissions and 24,000 deaths per year.
Goals:
The goals are to decrease emergency room visits,
hospitalizations, visits to healthcare providers, and
help HCPs deliver appropriate care to patients.
Solution:
The program offers:
A portal for patients to connect with providers.
A patient app to track their condition, add
data from medical devices, manage clinic visits, and view information on how to deal with
different lifestyle issues.
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Exco InTouch is collaborating with AstraZeneca on
a ground-breaking mHealth program —
Me&MyCOPD — to improve condition management for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The goals of the
mobile-enabled program are to decrease emergency room visits, decrease hospitalizations,
decrease visits to healthcare providers, and help
healthcare providers to deliver the most appropriate care to patients.
The program has three components: a portal in
which patients can connect with providers, a server
on which information is saved and messages are
scheduled, and an app that the patient can use.
Patients can use the program to track their condition, add data from personal connected health
devices, manage clinic visits, and view information
on how to deal with different lifestyle issues.
Me&MyCOPD is being piloted in the UK, where it
is estimated that more than 1 million individuals currently have the disease, which results in 115,000
emergency admissions per year, 24,000 deaths per
year, and 16,000 deaths within 90 days of admission.
Me&MyCOPD uses interactive mobile phone
and Internet-based health tools to help patients,
caregivers, and healthcare providers track and better manage the condition.
“Me&MyCOPD helps patients to better control
their condition and healthcare providers to make
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more informed decisions, tailoring care pathways to
each patient’s individual needs,” saysTim Davis, CEO
and Founder of Exco InTouch. “This translates into
improving patients’ health and their quality of life by
reducing the number of unplanned hospital admissions and the frequency and severity of exacerbations, which decreases the overall treatment costs.”
Me&MyCOPD uses a modular approach to create a disease management program that addresses
the primary issues facing the COPD patient population. The program enables patients to better manage their condition by addressing such challenges
as improper use of medications or failing to attend
follow-up visits with healthcare providers. The program includes remote monitoring through devices
and sensors, patient training, clinic visit management, pulmonary rehabilitation, and advice on how
to manage lifestyle issues. Clinically validated
assessments are also included to support patients,
which reduce the probability of exacerbations and
ultimately hospitalizations.
The program captures a broad range of patient
information, ranging from understanding patients’
needs and preferences, identifying exacerbations,
and providing personal goals management tools.
More importantly, real-time access to patient data
allows healthcare providers to monitor patient
adherence to treatment while also identifying sudden deterioration of a patient’s condition. This
allows healthcare providers to intervene for further
evaluation and treatment. The program provides
personalized feedback and information based on
subjective data, for example information from
patient diaries, as well as objective data, such as
information from medical devices and sensors.
The companies have determined two key learnings from the pilot phase.The first is the importance
of a good user interface design. It is imperative to
take the time to test the user interface with focus
groups that match the target patient population.
The second is to ensure that the IT infrastructure
and security platform are robust and able to handle
the amount of data that will be collected.
AstraZeneca is now expanding the program
globally. The platform has been developed in a
modular manner so it can be easily modified to
meet the needs of any geographic area.
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Case Study:
Partnership for Medication Adherence and Policy Change
Joel White
President
Prescriptions for a
Healthy America
Poor adherence to prescription treatment is a substantial roadblock to achieving better outcomes for
patients. According to the Network for Excellence in
Health Innovation, as many as half of all patients do
not adhere to their treatments, as a result $290 billion is spent annually on avoidable treatments.
Prescriptions for a Healthy America, a partnership
of healthcare providers, professional associations,
patient groups, pharmacies, and life-sciences companies, aims to raise awareness of the challenges
posed by medication non-adherence and to advance
public policy solutions to improve adherence.
There is an opportunity for mHealth and connected health initiatives to enhance medication
adherence. In 2013, Prescriptions for a Healthy
America conducted research with patients on medication adherence, and key findings of this study
reveal that patients want healthcare providers to
have more information to help them; patients want
more information so they can help themselves; and
patients want new tools to help them share and
access information.
Health information technology (HIT) can play an
important role in meeting these patient needs and
improving adherence, but many roadblocks need to
be removed if solutions are to realize their full
potential. Most importantly, the appropriate incentives to spur adherence must be aligned through
policy, payment, and delivery reforms.
“This is an easy issue to get behind,” says Joel
White, President of Prescriptions for a Healthy
America. “The challenges of medication adherence
are obvious, and there is an opportunity to craft
policies to improve health outcomes and save
money. We are able to convene a diverse group of
stakeholders that usually compete with one another and advocate for policy changes.”
Tools such as mobile apps, platforms, EHRs, and
patient health records are effective channels to
deliver the information healthcare providers and
patients want and need.
The use of these tools will continue to grow as
the population becomes more comfortable with
technologies that can record, share, and access
health information via apps and platforms on
smartphones and tablets.
According to White, there are four barriers to over-
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Challenge:
In the US, half of all patients do not adhere to
their treatments, as a result more than $290
billion is spent each year on avoidable medical
treatments.
Goals:
Raise awareness of the growing challenges
posed by medication non-adherence and to
advance public policy solutions to improve
medication adherence.
Solution:
The program offers:
Advance public policy solutions that align
policy, payment, and delivery reforms to
incentivize adherence.
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come if mHealth and connected health initiatives are
to be used more broadly, including regulation, comfort-level, interoperability, and culture change.
“One of the biggest questions is around health IT
regulation and the FDA’s role,” he says. “The lack of
clarity scares some of the innovators who are creating mobile apps and tools.”
He adds that the industry also has to contend
with the fact that not everyone is comfortable using
technology to share, access, or collect health information. When it comes to maximizing technology,
White says there is a need to ensure all systems
communicate and work together.
“Finally, government programs need to recognize that healthcare delivery is changing. There are
new ways of engaging healthcare providers such
as telemedicine. Technology can have a significant
impact on promoting health and wellness, and
reimbursement and policy changes must support
these new methods,” White says.
Prescriptions for a Healthy America has built a
supportive group of partners by putting forth a
clear mission of what needs to be accomplished,
communicating that mission and goals to partners,
and bringing the right people to the table.
“There is much more work to be done, and we
now have an engaged group of partners willing to
work to advance public policy solutions to improve
medication adherence,” White says.
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Challenge:
Patients want to improve their health and wellness,
but they need help to achieve their goals.
Goals:
Help consumers make healthy decisions throughout
their day and sustain healthy behaviors.
Solution:
The program offers:
Mobile and on-line platforms for social
media discussions, goal setting, tracking
progress, and prescription refills.
Rewards and incentives to maintain healthy
behaviors.
Virtual wellness coaching to help consumers
create customized goals and action plans.
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Walgreens was at the cutting edge of connected
health five years ago when the company implemented a mobile app to make it easier for patients
to refill prescriptions. The refill by scan functionality lets patients take a picture of a prescription bottle and submit the image through the Walgreens’
mobile app. A message is sent to the patient when
the prescription is ready for pick up.
“Today, one prescription is handled through
refill by scan every second,” says Adam Pellegrini,
Divisional Vice President, Digital Health at
Walgreens. “Refill by scan is now the norm in the
pharmacy world. Making it easy for patients to refill
prescriptions enhances medication adherence.”
Walgreens’ goal is to engage patients and help
them to make healthy decisions on a daily basis.
“We want to provide consumers with the tools to
make and sustain behavior changes,” Pellegrini says.
“We now offer tools that allow consumers to connect and incorporate data from other devices, such
as activity trackers, blood pressure monitors, and
blood glucose meters, as well as mobile apps such
as MyFitnessPal and RunKeeper. The bonus is that
consumers receive rewards for making healthy
choices, which helps them sustain these behaviors.”
Through its consumer-centric initiatives, Walgreens now has more than 160,000 consumers
who have connected a wearable device to their
Walgreens Balance Rewards account.
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“We are also seeing consumer engagement beyond
45 days and social engagement,” Pellegrini says.
There is growing evidence that consumers are
taking more responsibility for their health and wellness and engaging with wearable health and fitness
devices to achieve their goals. In January 2015, the
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) projected
that overall wearable unit sales will reach 30.9 million in 2015 (a 61% increase) and generate $5.1 billion
in revenue in 2015 (a 133% increase). CEA’s wearables
category encompasses fitness activity bands and
other health and fitness devices, as well as smartwatches and smart eyewear. Activity trackers are the
most popular of the health and fitness devices, and
they will lead unit sales among all wearables in 2015
with a projected 20 million units and a market opportunity of greater than $1.8 billion in 2015.
Furthering its patient-centric approach, Walgreens
recently announced a partnership with WebMD to
provide virtual wellness-coaching on Walgreens.com.
Your Digital Health Advisor is a virtual wellnesscoaching program powered by WebMD to create
customized goals and action plans that support lasting lifestyle changes.
“Consumers can engage in interactive programs
that help with smoking cessation, weight management, nutrition, exercise, and emotional health,”
Pellegrini says. “Additionally, Walgreens Pharmacy
Chat experts provide live coaching and encourage
positive lifestyle choices and healthy behaviors.”
Pellegrini offers three key points for companies
to consider when planning mobile and connected
health initiatives focused on consumer and patient
engagement: keep the design easy to access and
engage in; be focused on helping consumers save
time; and incorporate rewards, for example moneysaving coupons or points that can be used for discounts to sustain behavior change.
“Technology is evolving rapidly, so in the design
phase be careful not to move too far ahead of
where patients and consumers are in the adoption
cycle,” Pellegrini says. “Keep the design simple,
frictionless, and make sure to incorporate the features and functionality patients and consumers
want. Additionally, adopt open approaches to software development so it is easy to integrate with
partners in the future.”
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The healthcare delivery model is undergoing a transformative change in order to meet the challenges
to make healthcare more affordable, efficient, and effective. mHealth and connected health initiatives have
the capacity to improve connections among healthcare providers (HCPs), patients, caregivers, payers, and
life-sciences companies. Additionally, mHealth and connected health initiatives can provide and deliver
care when and where patients need it.
These transformative changes are creating opportunities, and a desire, to experiment with new approaches and strategies in order to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare products and services.
Life-sciences companies have opportunities to be part of the mix and engage in mHealth and connected health initiatives and partner with patients and HCPs to change how healthcare is delivered.
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