Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

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.” Trust lies closer to home, with the people I know, and my employer.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

For many years, I’ve advocated for siloes to break down so that these organizations, all of which have mission statements that speak to benefit patient care and health outcomes, to more effective reach those Holy Grails. This was met with a range of responses, from smirks and cynicism to surprise and questions of, “why?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

That’s a new bar not just for retail and banking, but for health care and insurance as well. And this is not only for providers and plans, but for pharma and life science companies, as well. Providers, plans and pharma that don’t re-imagine their businesses in this way will not be relevant to a percent of patients.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 9, 2019

I had the pleasure of meeting with Eugene Borukhovich at the recent Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA on September 17th, 2019 to discuss updates regarding this year’s GA4 program and his perspectives on the current digital health landscape. Digital health has matured tremendously. I'll fast forward.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

In advance of that discussion, I wanted to feature remarks shared by Brad Smith, Microsoft President, that I recently heard at CES 2021 , the annual (this year, virtual) meeting convening the largest community of consumer electronics stakeholders globally.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I have the opportunity, for which I’m so grateful, of not only attending this meeting but playing a role as a speaker, a sometimes stage “emcee,” and a keynote speaker. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For over ten years, digital health technology has been a fast-growing area at the annual CES , the largest convention covering consumer electronics in the world. Gary’s Book Club featured my HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen at the 2020 CES. FYI, “Gary” is Gary Shapiro….

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

Next week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will convene CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, where over 180,000 tech-minded people from around the world will convene to kick the tires on new TVs, games, smart home devices, 5G connections, 3-D printing, drones, and to be sure, digital health innovations.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I was engaged at this conference to wear several hats — as a keynote speaker, a sort of “emcee,” and, finally, to trend-weave the many talks and discussions happening throughout the meeting. Deb Gage, Medecision CEO, kicked off the meeting. Thank you, Medecision team, for convening this exciting, inspiring, informative meeting.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That’s the industry-health care enterprise point of view. From the health citizen’s point of view, a Morning Consult poll conducted in June 2021 found that while 2 in 5 US adult said AI is a safe way to approach modern health care. To implement integrated governance designed for the challenges of a digital health ecosystem.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2022

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of CTA, introduced today’s CES keynote speaker, Robert Ford, as the “ first-ever keynote speaker from health care” at CES, calling out the fact that Abbott’s Freestyle Libre System garnered one of CES 2022’s Innovation Awards. It’s “life care.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

CSweetener also curates a Speakers Bureau to help alleviate the ongoing challenge of “manels” (men on panels) at technology meetings. In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

Thanks to both the Edelman organization and Microsoft President Smith for inspiring me after this intense week at CES 2021, JP Morgan, the W2O Group’s digital health summit, and other interstitial meetings that have blown my mind over the past four days and disrupted my sleep.

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