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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. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.

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

Health Populi

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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Could Telehealth Services Help Stop the Opioid Crisis?

Clocktree

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.

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

Health Populi

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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Texas passes law authorizing teledentistry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Public health experts had pointed to teledentistry as one way to help lessen the burden of patients seeking dental care at emergency departments, especially during the pandemic. The tiff in Texas echoes a similar showdown out of North Carolina in 2015. THE LARGER TREND. In a 6-3 decision, the U.S.

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

Health Populi

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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Stress in America on the Pandemic’s 2nd Anniversary: Money, Inflation, and War Add to Consumers’ Anxiety

Health Populi

Financial health is embedded in peoples’ overall sense of well-being and whole health. The public health crisis exacerbated that, especially among women who were harder hit financially in the past two years than men were. That situation was even worse for women of color.