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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

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In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. ages 12 to 17 presented to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts in the winter of 2021 — 39% greater than in the same period in 2019.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

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This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 billion, up 22% from 2019. billion in 2020… so far.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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allocates more national spending to health care than any other country (among these OECD nations as well as countries not included in this research). we Americans can chant, when it comes to medical spending. In 2019, that reached nearly 17% of the national economy. The second chart illustrates the long-time fact that the U.S.