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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

Here, he described the evidence demonstrating that statins work in only 18 of 1,000 patients, but of course statins are prescribed the world over in millions of patients, making the drug category one of the top prescription medicines on the Planet. This is the illusion of treatment that doesn’t do anything.”

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Populi

Donald Berwick re-named these factors that underpin our health as “The Moral Determinants of Health.”. We must connect the dots between public policy for food security, safety, and accessible nutrition; a clean environment and climate health; education; fair wages; and, of course, health security.

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Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

AMD Telemedicine

Healthcare organizations around the world are faced with a lot of uncertainty right now and have to make pretty major decisions about their course of action to survive in the new hybrid model of healthcare delivery. Why the Benefits Outweigh the Initial Cost of Implementing Telehealth.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

Former National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Farzad Mostashari co-authored a report with Dr. Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. ” Of course, this requires cross-agency and cross-health care industry collaboration on a national basis.