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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

How to respond? Dentsu Aegis has some thoughts: Brands should segment people based on their needs and motivations, focus on engagement (not the old-school metric of “reach”), and help people do their own versions of “digital detox.” Healthcare is now embedded into The Digital Society.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

The first diagram shows my evolving view on what I seek out at CES each year, from the traditional tracking of weight and activity to the mainstreaming of heart function and sleep, with the addition of the connected car for health and safety, and the smart kitchen and bathroom in the mix of health-at-home.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

Remember that digital health literacy is a “super determinant of health.” ” The post My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality for COVID-19. How to deal? But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. Lack of inclusive design.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Last year, MITRE developed An Ethical Framework for the Use of Consumer-Generated Data in Health Care, to guide organizations holding peoples’ personal health information on how to be good data stewards and citizens. ” Health citizenship for Americans sits on several pillars, and data well-being is one of them.

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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

A few articles that have informed me include… In The Atlantic , the piece The Kids Aren’t Alright explained how the youngest health citizens in the country may experience the greatest long-time mental health trauma, learning from Wuhan’s experience with C19 back to Katrina and the impacts of adverse childhood events.

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“AI tools can bring transformative changes that enhance the delivery of care and improve health outcomes.” The calls-to-action are five — they are simple and they are bold: Eliminate bias and discrimination from health care. Leverage digital health to scale best practices in healthcare and delivery — leaving no one behind.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Together, the JAMA Network Open research paper and AMA physician survey inform us with useful insights to close that health care digital divide which could make a major difference between some patients’ lives versus their demise.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

About four in 10 people 50+ are interested in “purchasing” (the word used in the AARP survey) several digital health innovations: Communicating with a health care provider that you’ve taken a medication as prescribed. Communicating other information, like blood pressure, weight, or heart health) to a health care provider.

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

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In mode of attendee (and self-confessed collegial-groupie of Dr. Topol’s), I took in his remarks taking notes as fast as I could thanks to Mom teaching me how to type on an IBM Selectric (the significance of which I wrote about here in the Huffington Post ). “The U.S.

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

But even with the explosion of funding for digital health innovations such as wearable trackers, remote health monitors, and thousands of apps downloadable to our smartphones, the burden of chronic care continues to grow.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. We have the opportunity to modernize U.S.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Whether you’re interested in learning more about state-by-state policies, the latest on healthcare cybersecurity, or how to attain financial independence working in this alternate career path, these telemedicine newsletters can keep you wired in. For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure. And then we’ve been working directly with our members to showcase the incredible work they are doing in the face of this health emergency.

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Healthcare is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation through a digital health revolution do you want to be at the epicenter of it? If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

While doctors noted to the AMA their top virtual care platform of choice was Zoom, some patients could not meet-up due to barriers of lacking a smartphone, tablet, or computer device; the ability to pay for connectivity to the Internet; or the know-how to be able to access that well-intentioned “digital front door” to a virtual visit.

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The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

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AUGUST 21, 2018

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward. The new CPT codes do exactly that! Asia and Europe.

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Early warning signs of a mental health tsunami: A coordinated response to gather initial data insights from digital services providers

Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

Babylon reports many patients are seeking advice on information about local council support services, seeking advice for activities to keep busy and how to remain healthy, and how to get support to access food and financial concerns. For example, Ieso Digital Health reports an 84% increase in referrals.

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The majority of patients seek good customer support from pharma, education on how to derive the most value from my medications, advice and resources to ensure medication adherence, relevant offers and rebates, and follow up on progress and outcomes.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

The National Academy of Medicine is publishing nine reports addressing health stakeholder segments impacted and re-shaped by COVID-19 — for public health, quality and safety, health care payers, clinicians, research, patients-families-communities, health product manufacturers, digital health, and care systems.

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Seattle Coronavirus Care: Short in Staff, Supplies and Space

Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

All the doctors with UW Medicine have been trained, or are being trained on how to care for patients via telemedicine. Some hospitals are creating wards for COVID-19 patients.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Doubling-down on the issue of disparities exacerbated by digital health technology, Boston-based researchers published their view on Telehealth’s Double-Edged Sword: Bridging or Perpetuating Health Inequities in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in March 2022.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies.

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Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Digital Health Global

MARCH 16, 2023

Dr. Broussard volunteers her time to teach medical students and residents how to treat obesity. from the University of Michigan Medical School, an MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She received her M.D.

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DeepMind Health could gain ?excessive monopoly power? says new report

Lloyd Price

JUNE 16, 2018

DeepMind’s foray into digital health services continues to raise concerns. s National Health Service (NHS) ran into a major public controversy in 2016. Although the U.K.

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What's next for telehealth under the Biden administration?

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JANUARY 12, 2021

" Similarly, Meghan O'Toole, health policy advisor for Sen. She predicted that Biden's administration will support the idea that broadband infrastructure alone will not be enough for parity in digital health. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said "there's a difference between payment during a pandemic.

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The Next-Normal Health Care Consumer After the Pandemic

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, the other seven areas beyond health and well-being are adjacent to health, especially shopping and consumption (e.g., A Biden Presidency with a Democratic Congress in both houses would portend a very different health reform outcome than a Trump Presidency with a continue split legislature. and other driving forces.

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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

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

Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

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

Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

Early warning signs of a mental health tsunami: A coordinated response to gather initial data insights from digital services providers

Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Seattle Coronavirus Care: Short in Staff, Supplies and Space

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

DeepMind Health could gain ?excessive monopoly power? says new report

What's next for telehealth under the Biden administration?

The Next-Normal Health Care Consumer After the Pandemic

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