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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

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. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery.

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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The power of Digital Health in dietary education for chronic conditions

Digital Health Global

Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services. billion in 2016 to a staggering 6.3 billion in 2016 to a staggering 6.3

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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In an essay I wrote for The Huffington Post back in July 2016, I asserted that broadband connectivity was a social determinant of health.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

Health Populi

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. Cardiac health has a growing evidence base for digital health tech, IQVIA pointed out in their recent study on The Growing Value of Digital Health.

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Brazil’s HealthTech sector is new hot spot

Lloyd Price

There was a 250 percent increase in the number of healthtech deals compared to 2016. Telehealth and mobile health apps To help make healthcare advice, diagnosis and monitoring more accessible, telehealth services in Brazil are expanding. The key ingredients to create another boom sector like fintech in the region are abundant.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. in 2016 was foreign-born, this JAMA article published in December 2018 attested. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.