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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

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.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Economic sustainability, through online banking, employment, and ecommerce shopping options. Community and social context, enabling engagement and decreasing isolation’s impacts.

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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

in 2014 and 45.5% "Physician shortages, already projected to be severe before COVID, have almost become a public health emergency," he added. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4%

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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. Fast forward to 2023 and ECRI’s latest take on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2023. Year after year, some challenges persist, and these are shown in the last chart here from the 2023 report.

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New Sleep Therapy Company Primasun Combines Sleep Technology & Sleep Research

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Despite being described as a public health epidemic by the CDC in 2014, insufficient sleep has a catastrophic impact on people’s health, the workplace, and the healthcare system – much of which can be attributed to limited access to care. . Accepting Telehealth Jobs: 5 Big Legal & Ethical Mistakes to Avoid.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. The quantifiable benefits of rural telehealth are transportation cost savings, lost wages savings, hospital cost savings, and increased revenues to local labs and pharmacies, NTCA calculated.

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Smartphone Addiction: How Use of Mobile Phones Can Lead to Psychopathology and Phone Addiction Issues

Telebehavioral Health Institute

According to the World Health Organization ( 2015 ), phone addiction is a public health concern. The 2014-2020 analyses included 24 countries, 83 samples, and 33,831 participants. What is Telehealth? This article outlines some of the more salient studies that clinicians may want to understand.

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