A Spotlight on Patient- and Physician-Driven Digital Health and Mobile Innovation in Male Reproductive Medicine
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MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION AND DISORDERS (N THIRUMAVALAVAN, SECTION EDITORS)
A Spotlight on Patient- and Physician-Driven Digital Health and Mobile Innovation in Male Reproductive Medicine Adithya Balasubramanian 1 & Justin Yu 1 & Jorge Rivera-Mirabal 2 & Michael L. Eisenberg 3,4 & Aaron Spitz 5 & Nannan Thirumavalavan 6 & Larry I. Lipshultz 2,7 & Alexander W. Pastuszak 8 Accepted: 27 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Purpose of Review What is the goal of your paper? What questions did you seek to answer? Digital health is an emerging discipline that utilizes hardware and software tools to improve healthcare delivery efficiency and accessibility. Technologies that fall under the digital health umbrella include mobile phone applications, telemedicine, and social media networks. The goal of this review is to highlight two mobile phone applications that were developed for premature ejaculation and Peyronie’s disease. Recent Findings Summarize the latest research on your topic. Through the course of our review, we aim to highlight how these applications were conceived, the manner in which users interface with these tools and future directions for these software solutions. We identified that patients and practitioners alike are creating digital health solutions based upon personal and clinical experiences. Summary What answers did you find? What are the major takeaways/conclusions of your examination? What’s the impact on future research? The major takeaway of our examination is that digital health is an emerging area of innovation and investigation. Existing solutions however need further real-world evaluation to assess their clinical validity. Keywords Internet . Digital health . Urology . Men’s health; Peyronie’s disease; premature ejaculation
Introduction This article is part of the Topical Collection on Male Sexual Dysfunction and Disorders * Adithya Balasubramanian [email protected] 1
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Department of Urology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Department of Urology, University of California-Irvine, Orange County Urology Associates, Laguna Hills, CA, USA
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University Hospitals Urology Institute/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Center for Reproductive Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
The concept of digital health continues to evolve as new healthcare-oriented technologies are developed and brought to market [1•, 2]. Broadly, digital health is an emerging discipline that utilizes hardware and software tools to improve healthcare delivery efficiency and accessibility [3]. Technologies that fall under the digital health umbrella include mobile phone applications, telemedicine, and soc
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