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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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The U.S. is a Nation in Pain – America’s Life Expectancy Fell Again in 2016

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wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. states had the biggest increases in alcohol, drug and suicide deaths between 2015 and 2016, and in six states and Washington DC the death rates grew by over 20% — particularly in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

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The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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Can Artists Help to Remake Medicine? A New Book Asks and Answers (Yes!)

Health Populi

What if we asked an artist to re-imagine what health care could be? How might Thoreau take us on a nature walk for our mental health , or Basquiat channel his inner Da Vinci for a version of Jean-Michel’s Anatomy ? You can read more this program here in Health Populi. In her new book, Artists Remaking Medicine.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019. equipment and hardware).

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A BA Degree as Prescription for a Longer Life – Update on Deaths of Despair from Deaton and Case

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At that point, the research shows that Americans without a college degree had rising death rates due to drugs, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease — considered together as the “deaths of despair,” they coined in 2015.

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Could Telehealth Services Help Stop the Opioid Crisis?

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On October 26, 2017, The White Housedeclared the opioid crisis a public health emergency and the administration acknowledged a need to expand treatment throughout rural areas specifically by making telemedicine more accessible.