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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 Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr. Chris Gibbons of Johns Hopkins University, who wrote about Broadband as a Health Imperative back in 2014.

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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. This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine. Beyond the local economic effects, think about the larger region or State.

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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Market forces drove acceleration in digital health, specifically telemedicine, which were sorely needed for several years. Now that these innovations are here to stay (or so we hope), are we circling back to ensure adequate understanding of what is needed to achieve their full potential for public health improvement?

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. BMC Public Health. A telephone survey of patient satisfaction with realtime telemedicine in a rural community in Colombia. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. Telehealth mental health services during COVID-19: summary of evidence and clinical practice. Monagesh et al.

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Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Digital Health Global

She provides her expertise in weight loss both locally and nationally through various media outlets as well as telemedicine. is a Florida-based primary care physician, menopause specialist, and population health expert focused on improving health care access and design, particularly for women. She received her M.D.

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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