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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. “Hamilton Beach Health continues to explore collaboration opportunities with other companies in the home medical market.”

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

Ten years ago here in Health Populi , I wrote about New Year’s Resolutions for Health and the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Then, one-third of consumers were keen to buy health tracking technology but most of those people were healthy, CTA’s research found.

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

Health Populi

These actions include leadership support and resources to shift the organization’s culture toward behavioral health needs, patient and family engagement tactics, and warm handoffs to pediatric mental health services in the community, among many other constructive recommendations.

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From Yorkshire Lad to Global Design for Health: A Profile of Sean Carney of Philips

Health Populi

He’s part of Philips’ leadership team, and as such design informs corporate strategy at the company. “We have designers embedded in each business unit from consumer health through clinical medical technology products,” Sean explained.

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

Health Populi

These barriers are an underlying theme in CTA’s paper on advancing health equity through technology, sponsored by CTA and the App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (ACT). 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.,