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Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) Launched at G20 Summit to Revolutionize Healthcare

Digital Health Global

August 19 th marked a significant moment in the field of global healthcare as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the G20 India presidency jointly unveiled the groundbreaking Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH). This initiative is one of the key deliverables of India’s G20 Presidency. What will be the outcomes?

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

Health Populi

Tracking health information doesn’t result in better outcomes in and of itself, Deloitte’s report recognizes: it takes environmental nudges, like behavioral economic strategies and public policies like healthy agricultural supports and active transportation, to move people toward healthy behaviors and sustain them.

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Abridge Names Chief Clinical Officer: Dr. Tina Shah, Former Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and Practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Digital Health Global

A leading expert and policy voice on the crisis of clinician burnout in the U.S., Her work has included operationalizing strategies to address clinician burnout, rapidly standing up digital health solutions for clinicians during the pandemic, and shaping U.S. federal health policy. That’s game changing.”

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S. health care spending wasn’t utilization — it was the underlying pricing of medical services and prescription drugs.