Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

. “Despite breathtaking medical advancements since President Harry Truman declared war on heart disease 75 years ago, researchers have observed a disturbing trend that started in 2009: America’s death rate from heart-related conditions is climbing again,” the detailed essay explains.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For example, in Germany, digital health application access is regulated by the digital healthcare act (DVG: Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz) from 2019, making it easier also for patients to cover benefits from digital health, since insurances are required to pay for applications with certain specifications. Gerke et al.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

We have been talking about social determinants of health forever. When I got my master’s in public health in the 2000s, one of my professors was the father of social epidemiology from the 1960s. But today it is just as hard to get a mental health appointment or a detox bed in DC as it was back when this happened in 2009.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance. Goal #4: Creating Statewide Digital Health and Telehealth Infrastructure. Elsewhere? We’ll have to see. SDHN, we solve this.

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Waracle

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

We recently explored how the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and emerging technologies transforming healthcare and a complete breakdown of digital health services and technologies. From the news that Fitbit (recently acquired by Google for $2.1 Today we’re exploring how mHealth apps are redefining the medical sector. CurrentHealth.

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