Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows.

Public Health 413

Public Health Digital Health Health Technology Mobile Health 413

The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 2001 to 2014, deaths due to overdoses in the USA were noted as: 8 fold increase due to prescription drugs. We are all aware of the opioid epidemic and the human destruction in its wake. However statistics have an impact that reaches beyond qualitative descriptions.

Digital Health 60

Digital Health Health Technology Mental health Pharmaceuticals 60

BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Foley’s 2017 Telemedicine and Digital Health Survey reflects a surging demand for telemedicine services among providers and patients, and a broader acceptance of the technology by other major players in the health care industry. Telemedicine spurring expansion. Questions of legality abound.

Telemedicine 40

Telemedicine Digital Health Mobile Health Medicare 40

care innovations

AUGUST 8, 2018

Back in 2014 , the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) collaborated with a network of local and national health technology leaders to build the Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network, an effort to extend quality care into rural and underserved regions with high rates of chronic illness. Wicker in their op-ed.

Telehealth 40

Telehealth Connected Care Telemedicine Mobile Health 40

Mobile Health Matters

APRIL 26, 2018

This shift had two serious consequences: Health systems had to reorganize their workflows to support this foreign technology, rather than the technology advancing care team coordination and improving efficiencies as promised. Keep in mind that many ACOs and IDNs have numerous EMRs throughout their systems.

EMR 129

EMR Meaningful Use Nursing Interoperability 129

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.

Mobile Health 48

Mobile Health mHealth EHR FHIR 48