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

Health Populi

The pandemic era relaxation of state licensure requirements addressed this chasm, providing greater access to patients who needed services as well as de-tabooing that access when patients felt nervous about in-person visits to therapists in a community, in-person setting. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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A Toxic Side Effect of the Coronavirus: Financial Unwellness

Health Populi

There was a bounce in “Confident” group in 2019, which fell by 10% just months later to nearly the 2017 level. The tagline explaining #2 here especially resonates int his moment: “The huge job losses brought about by COVID-19 were a vivid illustration of how public health can impact the nation’s economic progress.”

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Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017. This is a story worth watching.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.

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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The prevalence ( if not ubiquity ) of broadband, combined with fast-advancing robotics, ingestible technologies and wearable sensors as thin and lightweight as temporary tattoos – to name just a few recent innovations – are set to transform "medical services, public health, social services.

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Food as Medicine – Philips’ Take On An Apple A Day from the Rijksmuseum

Health Populi

Here’s my write-up of health, everywhere, at #SXSW2015 , including the Philips story. The serious public health data informing this campaign is that 85% of Europeans do not consume sufficient recommended quantities of fresh produce on a daily basis. The bar chart illustrates mean fruit and veg intake by European nation.