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A Spotlight on Patient- and Physician-Driven Digital Health and Mobile Innovation in Male Reproductive Medicine

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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.

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Dr. Pastuszak

- Endo Pharmaceuticals—advisor, consultant, speaker

- Boston Scientific—advisor

- Antares Pharmaceuticals—advisor

- Bayer AG—speaker

Dr. Lipshultz

American Medical Systems (Speaker)

AbbVie (Consultant)

Lipocine (Consultant)

Aytu Bioscience (Consultant)

Endo Pharmaceuticals (Speaker/Consultant)

Dr. Spitz

Chironhealth.com customer (telemedical platform)

2nd.MD—provide telemedical second opinions

Foresight imaging/TIMS telesurgical—consultant

Revactin.com—prior spokesperson

Endopharmaceuticals—speaker, spokesperson

AbbVie—speaker

Dr. Michael L. Eisenberg

Sandstone—advisor

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Illumesense—advisor

Gilead—consultant

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Balasubramanian, A., Yu, J., Rivera-Mirabal, J. et al. A Spotlight on Patient- and Physician-Driven Digital Health and Mobile Innovation in Male Reproductive Medicine. Curr Sex Health Rep 12, 261–265 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-020-00280-6

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