How Remote Monitoring Is Saving Lives
3 out of 5 Americans deal with at least one chronic illness such as heart disease, diabetes, or autoimmune disorders. Normally, patients with chronic diseases need to visit a hospital, clinic, or other healthcare facility multiple times a month. Doing so becomes complex when you take one other factor into account: 20% of Americans live […]
Dogtown Media Supports Connected Health by Advocating for CMS Home Health Prospective Payment System
mHealth development is rapidly transforming what’s possible in the medical landscape. As this continues, it’s important for all innovators, influencers, and other involved parties to be aligned to ensure healthcare’s future is as bright as it can be. Recently, Dogtown Media co-signed a letter with 13 other organizations (and counting!) to the Centers for Medicare […]
We Made an App With Allina Health That’s Improving Cardiovascular Care!
A couple of years back, Dogtown Media had the awesome opportunity to work with Allina Health and the Minneapolis Heart Institute on developing a MedTech app to improve cardiovascular care. Fast forward to now, and our collaboration is doing much more than just catching momentum in the app market — it’s helping save lives! One of the […]
Dogtown Media Champions Bipartisan CONNECT for Health Act
After seven years of promises to their constituents, House Republicans passed their repeal of Obamacare earlier today by a narrow vote of 217 to 213. To say that the bill is controversial is putting it lightly — for many Americans, it’s literally a life-or-death matter. But in this period of turmoil for the American healthcare […]
Dogtown Proudly Supports Telehealth-Friendly Senate Bill
One thing that unites people on both sides of the political aisle in America is the understanding that our healthcare system is deeply flawed. Many app developers point toward MedTech as part of the solution, but unfortunately the government has been slower to embrace the latest innovations than the tech community and general public. Dogtown […]
How the MedTech Revolution Will Use Mobile to save Lives
If you don’t think medical app developers have the power to save lives, don’t mention it to the doctors at Hahnemann Hospital. In a study from 2015, doctors at the institution experimented with a mobile notification system to encourage patient follow-ups. Readmissions dropped by 16 percent. New upgrades to medical laws in the US (and […]
Can Mobile App Startups Disrupt the Insurance Industry?
Insurance, along with medical care, is one of our country’s biggest industries — yet also one of the slowest to adapt to updates in mobile technology. The accelerated pace of FinTech adoption by the mainstream public, however, could signal a sea change for insurance. Clearly, consumer confidence in mobile tech has grown to the point […]
Medical App Development Industry Not Yet Producing Results
While medical app development has often been cited as one of the major growth areas of the mobile software industry, recent figures suggest there is a great deal of room for improvement. A recent global survey from Kentico Software found that 50 percent of users are not happy with the current generation of mobile health […]
5 Big Tech Predictions for the Next Five Years
For the eighth consecutive year, IBM has released its list of five upcoming technology innovations which will make a major impact in the next five years. The 2013 edition is heavy on learning, and it’s not just people who will learn from machines; machines will also learn from people. IBM’s first prediction is that tech […]