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How Public Health Crises Have Advanced Medical Technologies

InTouch Health

Throughout history, medical technology has largely evolved according to demand. Several major health crises forced the industry to reconsider the status quo, leading to sweeping changes throughout the United States’ health system. Ultimately, these efforts helped improve the health of the nation.

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Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Health Populi

We start with key lessons from the pandemic, confront the supply-side challenges we’ve already seen the start of, confess to our thorny sub-optimal solutions to the opioid crisis and mental health epidemic, and deal with the scourge of health equity that mars U.S. health care outcomes, bioethics, and moral imperatives.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

Health Populi

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. In this growing era of healthcare collaboration, Omron worked with AliveCor on the BP/EKG technology; here’s more detail on AliveCor’s website here.

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A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019….and a nod to Microsoft

Health Populi

Green plants are an important ingredient for wellness, with benefits for thinking, for mental health and mood, and for cleaner air, as this post in Healthline discusses. The kitchen is often thought of being the hub of health in the home as most consumers now view food-as-medicine ( covered most recently here in Health Populi ).