MobiHealth News November 7, 2017
Jonah Comstock

Existing digital health products, if deployed comprehensively across the country, could save the US $7 billion a year in healthcare spending, according to a new report from IQVIA, which until yesterday was known as Quintiles/IMS Health.

“For the first time we’ve sought to create a model that looks across five different patient population groups where there’s been a proven reduction in acute care utilization, typically hospitalization, when consumer mobile apps are used,” Murray Aitken, executive director of the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, said in a conference call with press about the new report. “Diabetes prevention, diabetes care, asthma, cardiac rehabilitation, and pulmonary rehabilitation — in each of those five areas we took the results from published research and...

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