Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We weren’t surprised to note that younger patients took advantage of retail clinics and other on-demand channels for health care, older people, too, have been willing to use sites other than doctor’s offices and hospital clinics to receive health care services.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business. Meanwhile, this week we get more evidence that “connected health” may be winning the terminology battle over mobile, wireless and digital health.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2018

Earlier this year, Nokia hinted it wanted to offload Withings, the startup it had bought for 170 million euros ($200 million) in 2016 and rebranded as Nokia Digital Health, to prioritize its network infrastructure business instead. In May 2016, two years after Microsoft had bought Nokia’s handset business for $7.2

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Why this call-to-action on the 118 th U.S. Congress to address telehealth right now?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

As part of the long-term plan for the NHS, funding will be provided to connect patients to a variety of activities, such as cookery classes, walking clubs and art groups, reducing demand on the NHS and improving patients’ quality of life.” He studies digital health passionately, personally, viscerally.

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Digital Health Today

MARCH 4, 2020

Digital Health Today would not be possible without our valuable partners. Digital Health Today would not be possible without our valuable partners. The post Ada Lovelace, The Computer Visionary appeared first on Digital Health Today. Brain Pickings , 4 Sept. Toole, Betty. “ Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

A recent meta-analysis looking at interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among older people looked at 38 studies through January 2016 and found some promising interventions, albeit lacking as robust a field as the researchers would have liked to mine. How to mitigate loneliness, especially among older people?

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

The OECD calls this out as unequal access to broadband of sufficient quality where the share of households with broadband connections in rural areas is less than the share in urban areas — a gap that is even more significant when accounting for connection speed (which represents the quality of the connection).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2018

Compare the 2016 profit pools to those forecasted for 2026: in the current environment, the profit pools for PBMs, distributors, and payers fall ( colored in blue ). Rewards will accrue to the organizations that can scale such solutions. Over the same decade, see who wins?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by the pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 21, 2016

Figure from Chilmark’s Connected Health Report). The results of a six-month study on the impact of connected devices on chronically ill patients are in – and they’re not good. Digital Hypemen take note: Just strapping technology onto a patient will not make them healthier. On visits to the gym?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The challenge of healthcare costs is also on my mind this week as the Milken Institute published their annual report on America’s Obesity Crisis , measuring the health and economic costs of excess weight in the U.S. The total costs of obesity and overweight exceeded $1.7

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2018

But not when it comes to digital health…at least until 2018, as Fitbit has announced a woman-focused smartwatch called the Versa which is expected to hit the market in April 2018. Girls Rule the World, Beyoncé has told us. Tori Burch designed jewelry that fit a Fitbit tracker (shown in the third picture).

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

MAY 1, 2017

She first learned from her employer about the Accolade platform and health advisor service last summer. It wasn’t until she reached out with a simple question to her health assistant that Sarah experienced the true value of having a healthcare advisor on her side. Harriet sent a text to Sam to inquire about his knee surgery.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Yet the trust relationship with technology companies, even after the 2016 Cambridge Analytica event, is different and it’s clearly stronger than it is with health insurers. Should it be?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Congressman and House of Representatives Majority Leader ( with whom I collaborated at CES in 2016 ); Morad Fareed, (another CES collaborator of mine on that Wizards of Maternal Health panel )’ and David Pogue, who leads Corporate Responsibility at CBRE Group, among many other experts.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

This chart, on page 262, is important for healthcare delivery because a large proportion of the healthcare labor force is indeed foreign-born — at all levels of the system, from hyper-specialists in the operating room and research labs to home health aides helping elders with activities of daily living.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California, home to start-ups, mature tech platform companies (like Apple, Facebook and Google), and countless digital health developers, is in a particularly strategic place to fight the FCC and, now, the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen other states are looking to write net neutrality laws following Governor Brown’s example.

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