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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. value-based).

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

Among the dozen+ safety issues are medication safety, health IT, workforce staffing, telehealth and digital health risks, infection prevention and control, and health equity — which ECRI noted as #1 last year in its 2021 review as “racial and ethnic disparities.”

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IT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? The system was fully integrated into BESTCare and monitors all inpatient test results and vital signs 24/7 since 2013. SNUBH launched a home grown personal health record application named Health4U since 2013.

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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Let’s look back even further to 2013 to examine one definition of patient engagement: Health Affairs defines patient engagement as combining patient activation with interventions designed to increase and promote positive patient behavior, such as obtaining preventive care or exercising regularly, hopefully to lower costs.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Health Populi

What he didn’t realize at the time was that “we were a company trying to solve health disparities.”. But in 2013, health equity wasn’t on anyone’s agenda. He envisioned ConsejoSano as a telemedicine company that could address this challenge and he raised angel funding, creating a minimum viable product.