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Color Me Healthy – Pantone’s Forecast on Post-Pandemic Well-Being and Design

Health Populi

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. For context, Pantone plays a role in your life you might not realize.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patientsexperiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust. Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others. Interestingly, a news story came out last week about this very subject in the context of a lawsuit featuring Google and the University of Chicago.

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Doc Tom Awardees Announced at SPM2018 Conference

Society for Participatory Medicine

Liz, known on social media as @LizArmy and blogging at , turned her brain cancer diagnosis in 2008 at age 29 into “an open source chronicle of the patient experience.” ” Her blog TheLizArmy is her personal journal and health care soap box, receiving over 30,000 visits each year.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. Simultaneously, these biomarkers must be of sufficient direct value to patients to justify their participation in the data-collection effort.