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Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company Announces Acquisition of HealthBeacon PLC

Healthcare IT Today

Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company today announced that, through its Hamilton Beach Health subsidiary, it has acquired HealthBeacon PLC , a medical technology firm and strategic partner of the company. HealthBeacon was founded in 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. Originally announced February 5th, 2024

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

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Each year, ECRI informs us on their view of the Top 10 patient safety challenges. ” Clearly, patient safety challenges in 2023 go well beyond technology in and of itself. Year after year, some challenges persist, and these are shown in the last chart here from the 2023 report.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

These technologies are emerging from both the medical-tech developers as well as consumer-grade and -facing companies: think HIMSS and RSNA vis-a-vis CES/the Consumer Technology Association. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Start with tracking: nearly 80% of people tracked at least one health metric in 2019, but nearly one-half of that tracking was done in an analog, not digital way. What do health trackers track, then? And, as Cerner announced its collaboration with Uber Health this week, we see a health IT company expanding beyond what an EHR could be.

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

Health Populi

One terrific example that clearly illustrates the opportunity to address these three pillars is the Kinsa Health School Program, described in the report. Kinsa Health began to market the first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer in 2013.

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Aiming for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

However, when we look at existing medicines used today, drug therapy is rarely dose optimized for the individual, with most therapies and medical devices approved based on overall safety and efficacy investigated in large-scale clinical trials. These factors not only vary between individuals of different races, gender, age etc.,