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

ActiGraph

AUGUST 23, 2023

Effective August 23, 2023, ActiGraph is discontinuing the sale of one of our wearable digital health technology (DHT) devices, the GT9X Link. Originally launched in 2014, the GT9X Link is a multi-sensor wearable device that has been used to collect actigraphy data in clinical research studies across public health and academia.

Public Health 88

Public Health Digital Health Health Technology 88

Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices.

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Mental health Nursing Health Technology Leadership 182

The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. 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. Among them is drug addiction.

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Digital Health Health Technology Mental health Pharmaceuticals 60

E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 29, 2014

As a member of the Editorial Board of Population Health News , I was asked to provide some personal perspectives for the October 2014 issue. A&M Health Science Center, Beaumont, TX. Principal and founder, Better Health Technologies, LLC, Boise, Idaho. School of Public Health Boston, Mass.

Health science 45

Health science Primary Care Health Policy Public Health 45

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

In addition to offering a generous employee benefits package, the hospital collaborated with the Massachusetts Nursing Association — its RNs’ collective bargaining arm — to offer employees up to $2,000 in incentives for maintaining their health. Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

Leadership 32

Leadership Nursing Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 32