JAMA Features Our Thoughts on mHealth

BOSTON– March 24, 2014: While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released guidelines for the regulation of mobile health (mHealth) apps that act as medical devices or as accessories to medical devices, the vast majority of mHealth apps remain unregulated and unevaluated. In a Viewpoint article, “In Search of a Few Good Apps“, published in JAMA on March 24, 214, co-authors, Adam Powell, PhD, president of Payer+Provider Syndicate, along with David Bates, MD and Adam Landman, MD of Brigham […]

TraumaQi Featured on KevinMD.com

NASHUA – June 6, 2012: An essay on the influence of fatigue on claim quality written by Dr. Adam Powell was featured on KevinMD.com, the site of social media’s leading physician voice. In the essay, Dr. Powell described the problem behind Payer+Provider’s TraumaQi service: While there is an extensive literature on how tired, overworked physicians provide lower quality medical care, one thing that has been ignored by advocates of quality improvement is that overwork financially harms hospitals as well. Just […]