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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – February 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). 1/11/18: Introduced and referred to Public Health and Human Services Committee. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. Mississippi.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.