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

Health Populi

It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digital health funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph. The pandemic has accelerated funding in digital health tools across many forms, shown in Rock Health’s second chart here on top funded value and clinical propositions.

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Black Opal Ventures: Women-led VC Fund Investing in Technology to Revolutionize Industries

Digital Health Global

BOV believes this capital infusion will empower innovative early-stage companies at the intersection of healthcare and technology, heralding a new era of transformation in the healthcare industry. We are confident they can change the industry for the better,” explains Bishop. “It

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

Health Populi

Beyond access to broadband connectivity, this basic need also encompasses peoples’ trust with digital tech. Misuse of personal data is the top driver of distrust in the tech industry around the world, among 64% of global citizens. This is why I so often repeat that broadband connectivity is a social determinant of health.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0 This is my lens as I enter this year’s annual Health 2.0 The post Prelude to Health 2.0

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Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Health Populi

Two “C’s” underpin this important digital transformation: the “Consumer” and “Connected.”. This week, two organizations mission-driven by these “C” words aligned to bolster digital health care transformation for all people — not just those of us advantaged by a bountiful local, accessible portfolio of social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

But as I write in HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , it will take health-baked public policies and stronger privacy rights in America to bolster better personal and community health and fiscal outcomes.