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

Health Populi

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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How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors

Health Populi

CVS stopped selling tobacco on October 1, 2014. In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health.

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Corporate Venture Capital's growing role and importance in HealthTech

Lloyd Price

Merck Ventures: Merck Ventures has invested in a range of healthtech startups, including Clue, GlycoMimetics, and AbCellera, demonstrating its interest in areas such as women's health, oncology, and immunotherapy. The company has raised over $1.3

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CIO and Chief Privacy Officer, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Jankowicz is also VP of information management at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. With a PhD background in AI and machine learning, he has helped grow its electronic health record into an integrated platform. Joseph's Health.

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Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is September 12, and more

Healthcare IT Today

billion messages since 2014. Mental health collaboration tech provider Resilience Lab announced three additions to its leadership team. DirectTrust, the industry alliance enabling secure PHI exchange among providers and between providers and patients, announced that the Direct Exchange has sent and received nearly 3.3

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Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is Sep 12, and more

Healthcare IT Today

billion messages since 2014. Mental health collaboration tech provider Resilience Lab announced three additions to its leadership team. DirectTrust, the industry alliance enabling secure PHI exchange among providers and between providers and patients, announced that the Direct Exchange has sent and received nearly 3.3

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What's next for Digital Therapeutics after it all went PEAR shaped?

Lloyd Price

Focus on mental health: DTx solutions are expected to play an increasingly important role in addressing mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, which have become more prevalent in recent years. In 2019, the company laid off 292 employees, or about 20% of its workforce, and filed for bankruptcy in June 2020.