For serious students who want to learn more....this one is not too GEEKy but long. So I won't post the whole thing

https://medium.com/@Morgan_Reed/sla...s-of-connected-health-innovation-6b273858d95f


Note who wrote it...

Morgan Reed
I'm the Executive Director of ACT | The App Association. We represent more than 5,000 app companies in the mobile economy.
Dec 1, 2017


Slaying Silicon Valley’s White Whale: Realizing the Benefits of Connected Health Innovation


hcare will remain Silicon Valley’s white whale until entrepreneurs and venture capitalists break down the real barrier to success. Like most difficulties, it’s all about the money — more specifically, the payment and reimbursement model that underpins the finances of our entire healthcare system.


In simplest terms, we’ve created the opportunity for physicians to be reimbursed for using patient data.

Medicare is BIGGER than ALL the insurers....

Every year, nearly 40 percent of the national healthcare expenditure is run through CMS.

Nowhere is this problem more acute than at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the biggest, most influential player in the American healthcare ecosystem. 


Beginning January 2019, the program’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) will assess doctors based on how many MIPS points they accumulate from a list of approved “Improvement Activities.”


These new rules will provide doctors with points each time they review patient generated health data from a connected, wearable, remote monitoring device, and will culminate in a financial bonus at the end of each year. 

just HUGE, if you have such a device, will you bring it to market?


this year CMS took the first key steps towards reimbursing connected health innovations in a value-based system. CMS committed to unbundle, or provide payment for, CPT code 99091. The 99091 code covers doctors’ collection and interpretation of physiologic data — like blood pressure or glucose levels — digitally stored and/or transmitted by a patient or their caregiver for a minimum of 30 minutes. Unbundling this code finally allows doctors and care providers to be reimbursed for time spent reviewing patient data generated from a connected device.

5 star read much more.

i liked this snip the best...

Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and a longtime digital health thought leader, said he expects further technological innovation on sensors as well — something else that could be accelerated by the availability of reimbursement.

“I think we still haven’t seen the combinations of technologies, so for example I’m very keen on remote monitoring of all vital signs,” Topol said. “That would include blood pressure, heart rhythm and rate, oxygen saturation in the blood, temperature, respiratory rate, right? We should have that now and we don’t have it yet.


Samsung is moving closer than than other platforms.

The stage is set for 
should be able to use your HSA or FSA to cover the cost of a remote patient monitoring device that you might wear on your wrist.”


so now we can glimpse just how it gets marketed/sold/underwritten?

this snip goes here
Two major things can hamper the adoption of a good idea in healthcare: too much regulation and not enough reimbursement. 

Open q; With this better view of the BIG pic. Would a tier 1 who has such a device-
not bring it to market. Also that the really good support for such a device, ie the
change in Medicare reimbursement to these device is BIG and is only happening in '18. It seems to be coming together in a nice way?

Any incremental info here?

Yes, it helped a fair bit, there is a BIG pic evolution that supports bringing health grade wearables to market, and gives good visibility into why their marketing has to be different than consumer. I learned a lot today .

The value of digressive reading- you just never know what you will find.
The nuggets from todays sifting were better than usual. It helped to show the very big pic-regulation is decreasing and reimbursement is recognized.

did NOT know this....


How remote patient monitoring made its way into Medicare's 2018 reimbursement rules
By Jonah Comstock
December 13, 2017
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As announced in the final rule in November, starting in 2018, a new reimbursable Improvement Activity is being added to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which encompasses using digital tools to monitor patients outside the hospital. Three digital health companies that worked with the CMS to bring about the change weighed in today on the news.

“Patient-generated health data is a valuable tool in patient care,” Anne Weiler, cofounder and CEO of Wellpepper said in a statement. “We’re pleased that CMS has recognized this, and is enabling the collection and analysis to be used in demonstrating quality patient care.”

MIPS is a part of the CMS Quality Payment Program created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). It allows eligible physicians to receive payment adjustments by reporting performance around the four categories of quality, advancing care information, cost, and improvement activities. This was the first year of the program and the guidelines are being tweaked for next year.

To report improvement activities, physicians must choose from a list of 93 activities. The new one in question is “Engage Patients and Families to Guide Improvement in the System of Care.” It will encompass remote monitoring as well as reviewing and interpreting patient-generated health data, provided the physician uses clinically-endorsed tools that include an active feedback loop. That means the system has to return some kind of actionable information to the patient or care team.

“It's not enough to want providers to expand care beyond the four walls of the office, it’s about empowering consumers and updating all parts of the system," Michael Sturmer, Livongo's SVP of health services, said in a statement. "The new CMS MIPS Improvement Activity further connects digital health with providers and care practices and is a significant advancement in making digital health part of the fabric of the healthcare experience. It is better for patients and providers, and that's better for all of us.”

Wellpepper, a provider of personalized, digital treatment plans; HealthLoop, which makes a care coordination system that helps physicians automatically check in with their patients; and Livongo, a chronic condition management company starting with diabetes management, all lobbied CMS for the change and were also involved in a recent CMS roundtable on patient-generated health data. 

The three companies authored and submitted the proposal to CMS in February, according to a blog post by HealthLoop CMIO Ben Rosner, who says he originally came up with the idea.

"As I reviewed the more than 90 Improvement Activities, ... I noticed that there wasn’t an activity that captured the essence of patient engagement — leveraging digital tools for ongoing guidance and assessments outside the clinic, including the collection and use of [patient-generated health data]," he wrote. "The closest existing Improvement Activities were related to the use of a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) to capture patient health data. While valuable, merely collecting medical and/or clinical data through a QCDR for the purposes of improvement in the quality of care is a far cry from engaging with patients outside of the care setting through contextual guidance, and an active feedback loop."

Rosner says that while reimbursement is a big motivator, he hopes providers will embrace remote patient monitoring for other reasons as well.

“For clinicians already using a patient engagement platform, these efforts will help satisfy the Improvement Activities category and earn 10 Advancing Care Information bonus points," Rosner said in a statement. "Eligible clinicians must simply attest to completing the activity for at least 90 days to meet 2018 reporting requirements. Financial incentives aside, engaging with patients is the right thing to do. Practices using automated patient engagement solutions see reduced readmission and complication rates, lower call center volume, better online ratings for physicians, and, most important, happier, healthier patients.”

Of course, those three companies weren't the only ones that pushed for the proposed rules change. The Connected Health Initiative, a coalition of industry stakeholders, put out a statement at the time the rules passed mentioning that they also submitted a similar proposal.

“Previous CMS rules created serious disincentives for doctors to consider using new technologies," CHI Executive Director Morgan Reed said in a statement at the time. "Together with our advisory board, CHI pushed for newly enacted rules that finally level the playing field for innovators, giving doctors and patients the chance to take advantage of the best technologies available."

Reed also penned his own Medium post on the subject.

http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/digital-health-trends-and-predictions-2018-part-2

a few posts on the nice shifts in the BIG pic of healthcare.

4. Reimbursement could mean a big uptick in remote patient monitoring

Two major things can hamper the adoption of a good idea in healthcare: too much regulation and not enough reimbursement. It’s the latter that has held back the adoption of remote patient monitoring. However, as of 2018, a new reimbursable Improvement Activity is being added to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which encompasses using digital tools to monitor patients outside the hospital.

“This is a big game changer,” Gary Capistrant, chief policy officer at the American Telemedicine Association, told MobiHealthNews. “They don’t consider this telehealth, so it’s available to people in metropolitan areas and providers are moving forward. And it fits into the coverage they’ve added in recent years for chronic care management. That’s the big opportunity that’s there.”

Morgan Reed, president of ACT | The App Association, stressed that remote patient monitoring isn’t just reimbursable, it’s potentially going to be one of the best ways for providers to get full value from MIPS.

“Under this program, if a physician requests that a patient provide them with patient-generated health data and then they review that data, that counts as an improvement activity under MIPS,” he said. “And why that’s important is this is the highest quality score for an improvement activity. It means money in their pockets through the bonus from the MIPS program.”

Reed said CMS expects a quarter of a million claims to be made under the new code next year. And the existence of the code will likely have trickle down effects for private payers as well.

“In short, the whole field of remote patient monitoring and patient engagement has had a chicken or egg problem,” Reed said. “We could build the software, but if it wasn’t economically or, from a liability perspective, good for the physician, they wouldn’t buy it. Physicians would request it, but if there weren’t enough physicians out there requesting it, than we wouldn’t build it. So the important part of what’s happened is it’s a marriage of the two aspects you need. The support from the physicians to make it worthwhile for them to buy our software, and that makes it worthwhile for us to write the code so they can start utilizing these capabilities.”

Of course there is further still to go for reimbursement, Reed said.

“The other thing that I think will need to be done is ensuring that for certain remote monitoring devices you can get a portion of the cost of those devices reimbursed through your HSA or FSA,” he said. “Right now you can go get your bottle of aspirin covered as long as your doctor writes you a prescription for it. If the physician writes you a prescription to say ‘I need to monitor your a-fib,’ you should be able to use your HSA or FSA to cover the cost of a remote patient monitoring device that you might wear on your wrist.”

Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and a longtime digital health thought leader, said he expects further technological innovation on sensors as well — something else that could be accelerated by the availability of reimbursement.

“I think we still haven’t seen the combinations of technologies, so for example I’m very keen on remote monitoring of all vital signs,” Topol said. “That would include blood pressure, heart rhythm and rate, oxygen saturation in the blood, temperature, respiratory rate, right? We should have that now and we don’t have it yet.


wkav, just as you said 



That would be the equivalent of a hospital room in the patient’s bedroom. So the problem we have is we have the parts, but not the sum of the parts. And no one has done the assembly to equate a patient’s bedroom to the hospital room with respect to vital sign monitoring. I’m waiting for that to happen. I think it will happen.”

The other trend that will drive a shift toward care in the home is the “silver tsunami” of the aging baby boomer population, combined with an institutional realization that home care can actually be cheaper for hospitals and more satisfying for patients.

“Demographic trends … have now converged in the past four or five years with the realization that treating people at home is actually more effective and cheaper if you can scale it,” John Gardner, managing partner at NGP Capital, told MobiHealthNews. “That taking people and guiding them into large institutional settings, the assumption that that was a cheaper way to provide healthcare to the mass market is actually not true. … That’s a huge opportunity that’s going to see a lot of progress.”

Dr. Joseph Smith, whose company Reflexion Health is built around caring for seniors at home via technology, agrees.

“No surprise, when you ask seniors where they want their care delivered, they want it in their home,” he said. “Why do people go to the hospital? It’s because they have to. They don’t want to be there and they certainly don’t want to be in skilled nursing facilities. And they certainly don’t want the hassle of going back and forth to a physical therapist’s office. Keeping people off the roads, particularly people who are recently post-surgery, all of that just makes a world of sense.”

The other Dr. Joe, Partners Healthcare VP of Connected Health Dr. Joseph Kvedar, cautioned that as this space opens up hospitals might need to fight to hold onto it as their own.

“It seems like illness management for sure is a new beachhead for any number of individuals,” he said. “As providers, we don’t do a particularly good job. We’re much more incentivized and geared toward managing things that are acute illness — whether it be accidents or injuries. We are set up to manage things when you get sick. Hopefully we do a good job of making you feel better. Chronic illness management is less episodic, much more ongoing. We’re not incentivized to do it financially, set up, or trained to do it. That leaves it as an open area. Companies like CVS and Walgreens are very interested in that space.”

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Introduction:
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I’m proud to say that during a subsequent discussion with the CTO of a large hearable company, he referred to our EOS S3 as a “masterpiece in system engineering”.


CTO of szhorn

Name: Mazeyar Firouzi

Title: CTO of Vice President of R&D

Introduction:
Mazeyar has 15+ years of extensive knowledge in embedded, semiconductor technologies and product manufacturing within the audio industry. He is based out of our Shenzhen, China HQ. Prior to joining Horn, Mazeyar held senior R&D roles for Tymphany, CSR, Nokia and Ericsson. He hold a bachelor degree in electronic engineering and an master in software engineering.

In his spare time he enjoys competing at Running(Marathons) and Triathlon(Ironman) events


is szhorn a large hearable company?

Yes it is.

szhorn is a very good fit for who would have made the comments


I’m proud to say that during a subsequent discussion with the CTO of a large hearable company, he referred to our EOS S3 as a “masterpiece in system engineering”.


It suggests there will be more to read of one day.

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   The pharmacy times reporting. Its worth the few minutes it takes
   
   http://www.pharmacytimes.com/contri...-pressure-putting-pressure-on-other-companies
   
   how many smartphones do you think the Pharm. times has written about?
   
   
   Samsung's New Phones Can Detect Blood Pressure, Putting Pressure on Other Companies
   MARCH 04, 2018
   
   The Samsung Galaxy S9 and 9+ will come with an optical sensor that will allow users to measure their blood pressure, without using an ancillary device.1 This is cool because no other phone has been able to do such an action in the past.
   
   Not only is this a new technology Samsung is bringing to market, but they are also working with University of California San Francisco (UCSF) researchers to expand the clinical utilization of this data. UCSF and Samsung are launching 'MY BP Lab' to help further research into the field of vitals and blood pressure monitoring and management. One aim of this collaboration is to create a feedback system for users regarding their BP and stress levels, and also expanding the contextualization of what BP measurements are in the general population.
   
   Those that choose to use the My BP Lab app will be invited to participate in a 3-week study to track stress levels, emotions, and their BP as it relates the users daily wellbeing (sleep, exercise, diet). The app will launch on March 15, and I hope to see the results published in the next few years.
   
   Now, this seriously throws into question a few other developments that have occurred in the past few months. First, Nokia's Digital Health division has been struggling since they acquired Withings. Withings was known for their peripheral devices that measured different vitals and health data, including blood pressure, weight, and temperature. Their Blue tooth enabled blood pressure cuff was well known, but costing users over $100, was a pricey investment. Since their acquisition, Nokia has been struggling with the market and has not seen the investment grow as much as they had hoped.
   
   Inevitably, the Bluetooth-enabled device market was bound to be hampered by technological developments this decade. While an intelligent development initially, the long-term applicability was bound to diminish with technological developments. Take for instance the Kinsa smart thermometer. Originally, it was meant to tether directly to a smartphone via the earphone jack. But as Apple and other companies have moved onto strictly Bluetooth technology, they are cutting the jacks out of their devices, leaving these companies' products with no future. Yes, Kinsa just got a new Bluetooth-enabled thermometer approved by the FDA, and it will come onto market shortly, but again, for how long?
   
   Other companies that will likely feel the pain from this technology will be Omron, who is well known for selling their blood pressure cuffs on the market (and in many community pharmacies) at this point. They recently have developed a cuff that can be worn on the wrist to detect BP over the course of the day, but with this type of tech from Samsung, it could prove to be a competitor.
   
   All of this also comes to a focal point with recent recommendations from the American College of Cardiology in their hypertension management guidelines. The recent recommendations push for ambulatory monitoring of BP and for patients to use remote cuffs at home. They've even put together recommendations on how clinics can store, clean, and let patients borrow them. The advent of a smartphone being able to do all this takes it to a new level and puts a damper on companies that may have seen this as a new business opportunity. 
   
   
   What it all comes down to, is once one company (in this case Samsung) demonstrates this is possible, others will hop on board.
   
   
   
   
   
   Apple and Google probably have their proprietary tech in the works at this current time to compete.
   
   Going beyond BP, Apple has been looking to expand what its Apple Watch can do in a similar process, though in different therapeutic areas. One that recently made the news was their collaboration with Cardiogram to monitor patients heart rate to detect arrhythmias.2 This is possible as the current itineration of Apple Watch can do so, but going forward there could be other possibilities. Some research is investigating whether the Apple Watch could detect diabetes.3 This does not necessarily mean blood glucose levels, but that could be a possibility eventually as well. Nonetheless, we are facing an era where smartphones could just be adjunctive health devices that replace a lot of current devices on the market, and push out traditional companies that have for years been making the same products. These companies could find themselves suddenly outpaced by companies they never thought may be competition.
   
   References:
   

   1. Samsung and UCSF Introduce My BP Lab, a Smartphone App for Blood Pressure and Stress Research [news release]. Samsung Newsroom. Februaruy 26, 2018. Accessed at: https://news.samsung.com/global/sam...ne-app-for-blood-pressure-and-stress-research
   2. Lagasse J. Cardiogram launches new Apple Watch features with a view toward heart health. MobiHealthNews. July 27, 2017. Accessed at: http://www.mobihealthnews.com/conte...apple-watch-features-view-toward-heart-health
   3. Shaw C. Can You Trust Apple Watch’s Diabetes Reports Without Measuring Blood Sugar Level? Accessed at: http://thyblackman.com/2018/03/03/c...-reports-without-measuring-blood-sugar-level/

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   http://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/n...-lower-starting-point-for-high-blood-pressure
   
   just a few snips,
   
   More than half of the US adult population has high blood pressure, according to updated hypertension guidelines developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology which were presented at the AHA's 2017 Scientific Sessions on Monday. The guidelines, which are the first comprehensive new high blood pressure guidelines in over a decade, lower the threshold for high blood pressure to 130/80 mm Hg, rather than 140/90 mm Hg.
   
   With the previous definition, 1 in 3 US adults were defined as having high blood pressure (32%). The new guidelines will result in 46% of the US adult population having high blood pressure or hypertension. However, there will only be a small increase in the number of US adults who will require antihypertensive medication, according to the authors. These guidelines are designed to help individuals identify and address the potentially deadly condition much earlier.
   
   
   
   this one...
   
   
   Journal of the American College of Cardiology, emphasized the importance of accurate measurements of blood pressure, getting the average estimate of blood pressure, and out-of-office measurements to confirm the diagnosis of hypertension and recognize "white coat hypertension" and "masked hypertension".
   
   
   Commentary-
   1. on the BP study there was this comment
   
   I hope to see the results published in the next few years.
   
   It won't take that long for them to say something. 3 wks for the data. AI to crunch it. They don't have to put it in the AM Journal of xxxxx.
   They can be much faster.
   
   2. Already the coverage is shifting. The pharmacytimes and others get the significance of such data. I liked the phrase
   
   
   one company (in this case Samsung) demonstrates this is possible, others 
   
   
   the race is on.

   Already this Tier 1 is garnering some well deserved attention for this effort.
   

   
   3. Samsung's IP on this is adaptable to wearables - hence the Gear X patent application. Hearables are also possible
   -An Iconx X.
   
   What will be different for these devices is the data set will be more comprehensive.
   
   Vital signs while driving.
   
   While sleeping
   
   etc.

   Nice work for this Tier 1, can you make it voice activated on the wearables? 

   
   

   thnks in advance.
   

1. BRAINSTORM DESIGN 2018

Design Saves Lives. How Royal Philips Is Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Design

Brian O'Keefe (L), deputy editor, Fortune, talks to Sean Carney, chief design officer of Royal Philips, at the Brainstorm Design Conference in Singapore on Mar. 6, 2018

Stefen Chow/Fortune
By DEBBIE YONG
4:18 AM EST


Good design has the power to transform healthcare, both inside and outside the hospital, according to Royal Philips’ chief design officer Sean Carney.

“It’s a huge shift for Philips,” said Carney on Tuesday, speaking to Fortune’s deputy editor Brian O’Keefe at Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore. “We’ve been in consumer electronics and lighting, but now we’re operating in the field that we call health tech. We thought that if we could leverage the credibility we have with consumers in their homes, we could drive better outcomes for patients.”

Carney joined Philips in 2011 from Hewlett Packard, where he was group director of experience design and, before that, a design director at Electrolux. At Philips, Europe’s largest electronics maker, he leads a team of more than 500 designers across 19 studios to integrate design across the company’s many verticals, from the production of flat-screen televisions or electric toothbrushes to the many research teams dedicated to refining life-saving health equipment used in hospitals worldwide.

The healthcare transformation services unit, which examines clinical pathways, and designs entire hospitals from the ground up, comprises over 150 former healthcare management consultants from firms such as BCG and McKinsey. Designers sit on the management teams of every one of the company’s business units.

“We co-create things together. There is no such thing as a free standing design team anymore. Device engineers, software designers and user interaction designers sit together as part of an agile team,” says Carney.

Steering the design function at a global design powerhouse often compared to the likes of Apple and BMW may seem like a plum role, but it hasn’t always been easy: in 2012, shortly after Carney came on board, Philips posted a fourth-quarter net loss of 160 million euros ($195.7 million) compared to a profit of 465 million euros ($568.5 million) a year earlier, after a slow-down in Europe hurt its lighting and healthcare divisions as consumers and governments cut their budgets.

But it didn’t deter the company from continuing to invest in design, where it has now made rapid strides..

“Healthcare today is a misnomer,” says Carney, explaining the company’s approach. “Healthcare is now based around sick care. We wait for people to get ill and then fix them. That’s not a sustainable model if healthcare is to scale to met the needs of our growing population. We have to help people before they get sick and we have to treat the illness.”

Philips’ medical devices, such as MRI and CT scanner machines, are connected to their cloud servers, which contain over 23 petabytes of data, tracking over 250 million patients around the world.

“Technology allows us to interrogate that data and do critical diagnostic support at the point of care,” says Carney. “It is enabling a lot of new experiences but our role as designers is to make that technology usable.”


Last year, the Philips Design team created an augmented reality surgical navigation system, which fuses images of a patient, captured via CT and MRI scans and ultrasounds, for a doctor to reference via augmented reality imaging while at the operating table. Says Carney: “By making the patient’s skin virtually invisible, doctors can do all the surgical planning before going into the operating theater, carry out minimally invasive keyhole surgery with less problems, which is more efficient for the clinical operator.”

Another recent project was an ultrasound imaging app, designed for midwives and healthcare practitioners serving remote villages in Indonesia to conduct diagnostic checks via a simple transponder and an Android mobile phone.

At least 60 babies were saved during a beta trial conducted on 1,000 women, according to Carney. “This is where design starts to feel meaningful—when you’re literally saving babies.”


He concluded: “Design thinking will only live if you’re doing—rapidly prototyping, sketching, enabling people to cocreate together—that’s where the real power of design thinking is unlocked. But it is still important to respect the craft of design: if it isn’t beautiful or has a usable interface that creates stickiness, then design thinking amounts to very little.”

very impressive? their focus on Asia is going to pay off.

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app based study that will monitor stress, emotion, and blood pressure

Emotion, Health and Psychophysiology Lab


its not just the number

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   The Emotion, Health and Psychophysiology Lab announces collaboration with Samsung and Sage Bionetworks on a new app based study that will monitor stress, emotion, and blood pressure levels in daily lives. The study harnesses new technology—an optic sensor in Samsung’s Galaxy S9—and an app “My BP Lab” developed by Sage Bionetworks.
   
   
   
   
   Photos from the Samsung Unpack Event; Press Release February 25, 2018
   
   
   
   
   
   Kareena, Aric, and Wendy are interviewed about an exciting new project that measures stress and physiologic responses in people’s daily lives. January 18, 2018
   
   nice?
   

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   Sage bionetworks?
   
   
   http://sagebase.org/mobile-health/
   
   
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   Over the next decade, ever-expanding data will transform biomedical research approaches and feed healthcare discoveries through the use of computational models to predict outcome and responses to treatment.
   
   At Sage Bionetworks we believe that this advance will be best harnessed when individuals and groups can collaborate openly on discoveries, with a fundamental shift in the traditional roles and rewards for individuals and organizations involved. We work to redefine how complex biological data is gathered, shared and used, redefining it through open systems, incentives, and norms. We challenge the traditional roles of individuals and groups, patients and researchers.
   
   
   
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   Sage’s mission is to develop — and help others develop — mobile health studies that accelerate biomedical discovery and improve patient lives. Sage Bionetworks is the world leader in piloting this approach with our partners, functioning both as a technology service provider and a research partner. Learn more about how Sage Bionetworks can support your mHealth study, or the tools we are making available to the research community. Read more here about how Sage Bionetworks partnered with Apple to launch the first 5 ResearchKit studies.
   
   they are doing really good stuff....