Integrating the Patient Voice Part 3: The Importance of Clinical Trials for mHealth Digital Tools
Integrating the Patient Voice Part 3: The Importance of Clinical Trials for mHealth Digital Tools

We continue our series on Integrating the Patient Voice by focusing on how we can formalize the patient voice through clinical trials.

So, where is the evidence for the added benefit and value of the mHealth digital tool explosion? In a niche market that promises so much, where does the evidence lie? How are patients, providers, hospital systems supposed to distinguish between tools that have proven benefit versus those that have devoted millions of dollars to their marketing plan?

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Kevin Campbell
Integrating the Patient Voice Part 2 - The Value of Patient Feedback
Integrating the Patient Voice Part 2 - The Value of Patient Feedback

When we started STREAMD, our primary goal was to create a service that would guide patients through their surgical experience and provide them with a source of information, encouragement, and empowerment. This has not changed. More than ever, we continue to value our patients, and have subsequently built our product on the shoulders of their voices! To our patients, WE THANK YOU for your ideas and voices!

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Kevin Campbell
The Backbone of mHealth Digital Tools: Integrating the Patient Voice - Part 1
The Backbone of mHealth Digital Tools: Integrating the Patient Voice - Part 1

The next blog series will focus on Integrating the Patient’s Voice while developing and maintaining an mHealth digital tool.

Over the last few years, as patients grow into more of the role of a healthcare consumer, healthcare providers and payers have been actively leveraging various healthcare digital tools to connect them (the patients) to their care. We have discussed in the past how mHealth is an important tool for improving patient engagement because so much of the technology is already consumer-facing.

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Kevin Campbell
Patient Inspirations Part 3: Let’s Redirect the Conversation and Engage the Patient!
Patient Inspirations Part 3: Let’s Redirect the Conversation and Engage the Patient!

What would happen if we spent less time talking about pre-operative pain, post-operative pain, pain medicine, other methods of pain control, etc… and focused more on what was most important to patients during their recovery? This question is the driver behind our motivation to learn about what inspires our patients towards recovery. If we want to engage patients so badly, we should focus more time and attention to what is most important to them!

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Kevin Campbell