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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative. has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. CTA’s new Public Health Technology Initiative promises to be an important, impactful effort as a public-private partnership.

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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 Importance of the Digital Front Door™ in Healthcare

Digital Health Today

operates a virtual health care platform that connects patients and clinicians through phone and video interviews. It also offers a ZipTicket, a healthcare boarding pass that provides patients with access to clinics for in-person assessments or lab tests. Zipnosis, Inc. Q3: What does re-humanizing mean?

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Everybody is Stressed in America, and It’s Not Good for Our Health: the 2023 Update from the American Psychological Association

Health Populi

The APA has been quantifying Stress in America since 2007; for context, at the end of that year The Great Recession kicked in , and in response President Obama’s team put together assistance to bolster the national economy, jobs, and health technology (codified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).

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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]. Higher-risk mobile health technologies are considered medical devices under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. a glucometer) with software (e.g.,