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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

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The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Vaccinations, Art and Labor Day: Learning from Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford

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Walgreens announced appointment scheduling for the boosters, and CVS Health discussed the plans for the updated vaccine administration on their website as well. As Science magazine’s coverage of this public health event noted , “Omicron booster shots are coming — with lots of questions.”

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

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During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. The President signed the $8.3

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

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ECRI builds this report of the Top 10 patient safety issues leveraging its long-time expertise in this field: their staff are expert across the health care landscape including people in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, risk management, and of course patient safety and quality.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

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In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. In this growing era of healthcare collaboration, Omron worked with AliveCor on the BP/EKG technology; here’s more detail on AliveCor’s website here.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

Suffice it to say that when it comes to the exercise and wearable sports segment at #CES2019, it’s not just for elite athletes — or men — anymore — a welcome event. With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines).