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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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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.

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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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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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

Health Populi

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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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Health Populi

Abner then went to Mexico and witnessed the emergence of telemedicine there. which was under-served by the nation’s health care system, realizing the promise of virtual care could have a positive impact for these patients. For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it.