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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

Alexander Garza, one of the project’s co-chairs, said in the Initiative’s press release, “We need to accelerate the use of technology that advances coordination and collaboration between government agencies and the health sector and boost the capacity of our public health infrastructure to better deal with large-scale, future public (..)

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. Workflow automation provider Hospital IQ found that 70% of health systems face staffing challenges and 61% struggle to forecast department-level staffing capacity.

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

Health Populi

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Providence Saint John uses AI platform to Empower Cancer Patients & Providers for Better Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

.” The digital tool is designed to support “patients with less-critical symptoms, which has the potential to reduce emergency department visits and improve clinical efficiency, which means a more efficient utilization of resources. diagnosis, treatment, remission, recurrence, treatment, survivorship/death).

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How the Centers for Medicare Services Supports and Regulates Remote Patient Monitoring Services

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Patient education initiatives To support patient engagement and empowerment, CMS promotes patient education initiatives focused on remote monitoring technologies, self-management strategies, and healthy lifestyle behaviors.

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

Today, the health and wellness consumer can DIY all of these things at home through a huge array of products available in pharmacies, supermarkets, Big Box stores, cosmetic superstores, convenience and dollar stores, and other retail channels – increasingly, online (THINK, of course, of Amazon — more on the A-word in the Hot Points below).

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