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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Prudential surveyed U.S.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

. "Rwanda’s eHealth Strategic Plan for 2016–2020 is the key driver to economic growth and to improving the lives of people. Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." The Future - What's Next?

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The Care Crisis – Robots Won’t Save Us

Health Populi

Most commonly, these are child daycare service jobs, followed by nursing and residential care and individual and family services, hospital and ambulatory services, and education. Even before the coronavirus emerged in early 2020, the U.S. had a supply shortage of nurses and some physician specialties.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. If pre-COVID era regulations that were dismissed in the pandemic revert back, Dowling is concerned the progress made for telehealth in 2020 will slow or return to pre-pandemic levels of uptake.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

As health/care goes omni-channel enabling patients-as-consumers to express their service demands across a platform of virtual and in-person front-doors, so the pharmacy will be embedded in these work- and life-flows. Welcome to the growing digitization of the consumer’s health-journey.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reenita Das Reenita Das is partner and senior vice president for transformational health at Frost & Sullivan. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history. Hospitals faced significant losses in 2020 due to COVID-19 as elective procedures were put on hold and out-patient department visits reduced dramatically.

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

Smartwatch purchases grew during the pandemic, too: since the second quarter of 2020, low-income Americans had the fastest growth in smartwatch adoption, with 1 in 5 people now owning a smartwatch — increasing 46% in that relatively short period, GWI calculated. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.