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

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Food systems, and finally.

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APRIL 17, 2023

And the data generated through our phones and smartwatches and wearable devices and smart gym equipment has everything to do with our health and wellbeing when combined with other data. Remember that digital health literacy is a “super determinant of health.”

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Smartphone adoption among older people grew by 50% since 2014, rising from 48% adoption among people 50+ to 79%. About four in 10 people 50+ are interested in “purchasing” (the word used in the AARP survey) several digital health innovations: Communicating with a health care provider that you’ve taken a medication as prescribed.

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