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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

Health Populi

In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them. Leverage health IT to identify disparities. health care — especially expressed by health disparities.

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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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Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company Announces Acquisition of HealthBeacon PLC

Healthcare IT Today

Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company today announced that, through its Hamilton Beach Health subsidiary, it has acquired HealthBeacon PLC , a medical technology firm and strategic partner of the company. Drawing on decades of experience as a trusted resource in the home, in 2021 we created the Hamilton Beach Health brand.

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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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health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens. Of course not.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

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During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

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Within the mega-deal trend, Rock Health pointed to three facets of the go-go digital health investment climate: expanding virtual care, research and development digital transformation, and fitness and wellness demand. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

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For growth, Beazley learned that 90% of business were planning for growth in 2021, 62% were raising capital, and one-third were innovating new products and services. The two key risks were client complaints due to misrepresentation, and cyber-attack or system failure. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.