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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. believe that data privacy “is a thing of the past,” MITRE’s summary coined, with older people (Boomers and Seniors) most likely to feel that way. The Harris Poll conducted the study among 2,065 U.S.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

In March 2014, Danny Wegman, patriarch of the family-held Wegman’s grocery chain, came out in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a statewide health information network in New York, where Wegman’s headquarters sits in Rochester. Wegman was CEO and advocated for the statewide health information network.

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Rate of Kids with T1 Climbing Rapidly

Insulin Nation

A massive new study released in May 2014 has documented that the rate of Type 1 diabetes in U.S. Researchers have long suspected that T1 rates have been escalating, but hard data has been scarce. For once, Type 1 diabetes should be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. children has increased by 21% over 8 years.

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What happens when an Algorithm labels you as mentally ill?

Lloyd Price

There was no regulation, for example, in the creation of the Samaritans Radar app in 2014, which notified users of who among their Twitter followers was at risk of suicide based on phrases such as “help me” and “need someone to talk to.”

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Digital health start-ups in India: The challenge of scale

Lloyd Price

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) pegged the Indian Healthcare Information and Communications Technology (ICT) market at a whopping US$ 1 billion in 2014. A major portion of the projected growth is expected to be driven by digital health start-ups. The industry was expected to grow 1.5

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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