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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

Yet these aspects of data privacy (and others) are central to the needed trust bridge between patients and the health care providers, clinicians, researchers, and teams that are meant to have peoples’ best interests in bolstering their health, and more broadly community and public health.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. But the immediate pivot to virtual events, and the spring launch of the HIMSS20 Digital event proved the value of knowledge-sharing and connection, even at a distance.

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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare institutions' motivations for innovation are to improve patient experience, stay relevant and support the changing care model (i.e., A self-developed remote diagnosis and treatment service platform connects with IOT medical equipment used by clinicians at local public health centres.

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2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

Society for Participatory Medicine

Under our agreement with Health Union, we can utilize that curriculum ourselves—as can other organizations with acknowledgement of SPM’s authorship—to advance the mission of SPM. With each event, our audiences grew, and we strengthened our ability to stage them. We are looking at how best to use these materials in 2024.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

Most physicians (69%) said they felt “colloquial depression” versus 20% who self-diagnosed with clinical depression — several depression lasting some time, not caused by a normal grief event. How does that depression affect patient relationships? Four in ten U.S. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.