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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

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At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. That second point is illustrated by the first diagram, showing the interconnected nature of data sources that are generated by the U.S. Tribal health departments.

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Trust is a Superpower for Public Health – The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer Through the Health Lens

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In addition, the politicization of health, dispersion of authority (with friends and family at least as trusted as scientists to “tell the truth on health”), and self-guided health (not necessarily in partnership with a licensed clinicians) can all be risks for health outcomes. Looking at the U.S.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

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In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

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Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. Beazley conducted a survey among 376 digital health and wellness practitioners and divined four key themes from the research on risk, growth, insurance, and understanding.

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

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The third chart gives us a mass of dots in a general region around “higher health system performance and not-so-different levels of health care spending — a range of 9% (for New Zealand and Australia) and closer to 12% for Germany and Switzerland. The dot/data point for the U.S. You can miss the U.S.

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

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I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. FYI, I am sharing these data with permission from CTA, grateful to be able to do so.

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How COVID-19 Is Reshaping Cities and Inspiring Healthcare Innovation

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” This was one pillar for the public health prescription we were given to help mitigate the spread of a very tricky, contagious virus. Their report envisions a new normal for physical spaces, public transit and commuting, airports, urban infrastructure redevelopment, remote work, and public health.