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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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

Health Populi

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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

Health Populi

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. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. The President signed the $8.3

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

Suffice it to say that when it comes to the exercise and wearable sports segment at #CES2019, it’s not just for elite athletes — or men — anymore — a welcome event. With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines).

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Heart health at home.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

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In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them.

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