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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

In full disclosure, Susannah Fox is a long-time colleague, collaborator, and indeed friend of mine since meeting her when she was working at the Pew Research Center, helping us define and explain the earliest days of the Internet in health care. or Health 2.0”

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

TIME magazine’s coverage of how CES featured telehealth covered four stories including Abbott’s Neurosphere, Jasper Health’s oncology platform, EarlySense InSight at Home, and BioIntelliSense biosticker and biobutton devices for remote patient monitoring. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. ” And here is another mainstream media take on Melissa’s “secret battle with depression” in People magazine, 22nd March 2021.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

The targeted prevention programs channeled through schools and churches as well as on-line, increasing engagement in the at-risk population and resulting in a 20% decline in teen pregnancy over 3 years.

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Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp

Digital Health Today

She continued to have an impact throughout her life, supporting public health campaigns, criticizing the Poor Laws, and opposing the arrest of prostitutes for disease. Joshua Hammer for the Smithsonian Magazine. Digital Health Today would not be possible without our valuable partners. Thomas Hospital in 1860.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

Furthermore, in the specific context of the annual 2021 convening of HIMSS, bringing together the world’s stakeholders in health care and digital technology, the implications are many, complicated, and some uncertain. To answer my over-arching question — can digital health help improve health system performance in the U.S.