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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains.

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Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Health Populi

.” The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) are the two organizations coming together to address an inequity that’s been made so obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic: connectivity, software, and hardware access for people to work, live, educate, and access health care from home.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

states expanding access to these methods for the 2020 election, where these options have been made available due to the pandemic and electoral leadership throughout the U.S. concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”.

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