The Journal of mHealth Vol 2 Issue 2 (Apr 2015) | Page 3

Editor's Comments Welcome A major difficulty facing healthcare professionals throughout the world is the need to constantly do more with less. Less time and fewer resources! For patients this means that they can often be unintentionally left feeling unsupported and at times isolated from their own care provision. Digital health solutions are proving an important means of filling this care gap. By tailoring solutions to the specific requirements of an individual patient digital healthcare has real potential to offer significant value, by helping with the management, and in some cases treatment options, of specific medical conditions. In this issue we include a number of articles that consider the role that digital and mobile technologies can play in the management and treatment of conditions. As well as discussing examples of solutions that are providing vital enhancements to the communication between HCPs and patients and improving care pathways. Published by Simedics Limited With the American Telemedicine Association’s annual meeting (one of the largest telemedicine and digital health events of the year) coming up at the start of May we were fortunate to be able to talk to Jon Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, ahead of this year’s event in Los Angeles. The ATA is a leading international resource and advocate for promoting the use of advanced remote medical technologies. In this interview Jon discusses the current state of the market and highlights what we can expect from the event. For editorial, research and paper submissions, and advertising opportunities please contact: Matthew Driver Also, in the first of a new series of articles discussing the changing regulatory landscape of the digital health market, Bradley Merrill Thompson of US law firm Epstein, Becker & Green provides an expert evaluation of the guidance document on “General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices” which was proposed by the FDA earlier this year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Bradley and the team at Epstein, Becker & Green for partnering with us to produce this content. We know that the changing regulatory landscape surrounding digital health is a particular topic of interest to many of our readers, and we hope that through insight pieces like this we are able to offer some clarification on the evolving situation. www.thejournalofmhealth.com www.simedics.org Editor: Matthew Driver Design: Jennifer Edwards [email protected] [phone] Subscribe at The editor welcomes contributions for The Journal of mHealth. Submissions can be sent to the editor by email, images and graphics should be submitted in high resolution format. Finally, following the overwhelming success that we had with last year’s Global Digital Health 100 Award I am pleased to be able to announce that we are running the award list again for 2015. Aimed at highlighting the best innovations and technologies, with the greatest potential to change the way that modern healthcare is delivered. The awards are open to any