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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

As the authors of the HaH article assert, “at a societal level, HaH could help avoid billions in capital costs to build more brick-and-mortar hospitals,” I return to Roemer’s Law learned in graduate school that, in a volume-based payment system, “A built bed is a filled bed is a billed bed.”

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The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

Health Populi

” asks the lead article featured in the January 2023 issue of the AARP Bulletin. “Are we losing the battle against heart disease?”

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Health Populi

As an example of this trend, Accenture points to Mindstrong which leverages AI and machine learning to divine digital phenotypes of consumers-patients that inform mental health support.

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From Yorkshire Lad to Global Design for Health: A Profile of Sean Carney of Philips

Health Populi

“We have designers embedded in each business unit from consumer health through clinical medical technology products,” Sean explained. “At Philips, designers work horizontally across business units, not in isolation; they’re connecting dots, patient journeys, and multiple points,” Sean said.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

The product comes in pairs, one band worn on each wrist, using haptic microvibrations — a technology with acronym “BLAST,” which stands for bi-lateral alternating stimulation tactile.

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Overcoming Reimbursement Hurdles for Digital Health Startups and Technologies

Digital Health Today

We also have engineers based in Kuala Lumpur, so we can evaluate medical technology that is bought and sold outside the United States. If I'm a digital health startup – who should I look to for this type of guidance? Marcus: 19-20 years ago, I published an article called the 99% dilemma. It is actually not.