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Primary Care 2.0 – How Crossover Health is “Re-Bundling” Health Care

Health Populi

In 2020, investments in digital health reached $14.1 bn , much of which went into niche applications like lab testing, medication adherence, and on-demand triage for urgent care. These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. This week, digital health will span from head to toe, from body (outside and in) to the home and connected car.

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WhatsApp, Messaging Apps and the future of Digital Health in the UK

Lloyd Price

Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK. The results provide strong evidence that healthcare organisations need to develop policies to support the safe and secure use of digital technologies in the workplace and that strategies are needed to secure further innovations in digital health."

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How Consumers’ Belt-Tightening Could Impact Health/Care – Insights from Deloitte’s Retail Team

Health Populi

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. consumer spending for education, food and health care substantially grew, crowding out spending for other categories like transportation and housing.

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Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Health Populi

.” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago. Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007].

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

Long waiting lists and clinicians’ shortage Healthcare waiting lists represent a significant challenge for many countries, with millions of patients facing delays in accessing essential medical care. million people were waiting to start routine hospital treatment, the highest number since the NHS began to collect data on the issue in 2007 3.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

The health informatics field is rapidly growing in all areas of healthcare and healthcare management. Health Informatics at Northeastern . At Northeastern, the HI program accepted its first students in 2007, making it one of the oldest HI graduate programs in the country.