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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Digital health in Africa is a rapidly growing field, with the potential to improve access to healthcare and quality of care across the continent. Cost: Digital health technologies can be expensive, which can make them inaccessible to low-income populations.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

How to address the trust-busted technology industry? Codifying trust in technology through transparency and fairness. Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. For the U.S.

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#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

Our lineup includes a deep dive into Europe’s current regulatory landscape, including the AI Act, the European Health Data Space and the European Recovery and Resilience Fund. We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Weekly Roundup – August 5, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Environmental Health Surveillance Enhances Public Health. Dr. Mark Pratt at Altera Digital Health suggested that prioritizing usability, enhancing interoperability, and offering flexibility can make next-level EHRs possible. Read more… 3 Things That Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance

Healthcare IT Today

On behalf of the State, NYeC leads the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY), a network to connect healthcare providers statewide, develops policies and standards that support the utilization of health technologies, and assists healthcare providers in adopting and effectively using electronic health records.