Digital health leaders on the most noteworthy events of 2023
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
From the end of the Public Health Emergency to the launch of ChatGPT and the Apple Vision Pro, executives reflect on what stood out to them this year.
How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors
Health Populi
JULY 15, 2020
In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health.
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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
JULY 28, 2020
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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Linux Foundation Public Health projects first focused on Google-Apple Exposure Notification API
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 22, 2020
The Linux Foundation has launched a new project to harness open source software to help global public health agencies fight back against COVID-19 and prepare for future public health challenges. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. COVID Green was created by a team at NearForm in cooperation with the Irish government.
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Machine learning algorithm helps Bluetooth contact tracing systems discern per-event risk of COVID-19 transmission
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 8, 2020
The novel approach could help public health authorities focus their contact tracing and quarantine efforts on those at greater risk of infection.
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Experts, government outline healthcare strategies for gun violence prevention at Northwell's annual forum
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Providers, researchers and government officials gathered Tuesday to discuss the "urgent public health crisis" of gun violence and throw their weight behind a new multimillion-dollar aware | The event, which emphasized the role of healthcare professionals in addressing gun violence, came with the announcement of an industry-backed, multimillion-dollar (..)
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Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 30, 2024
The California ADT Network will rapidly accelerate California’s ability to positively transform health equity, public health, and Medi-Cal outcomes, which rely on robust and seamless health data sharing among all providers.”
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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2021
Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows.
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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.
Health Populi
AUGUST 14, 2023
The Taylor Swift Eras Tour, slated to raise $1 billion when it’s completed, generating financial benefits to the towns she’s staged the event, giving those local economies a boost according to the Federal Reserve July Beige Book. The crowds at these cultural events showcase women’s agency and voice.”
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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.
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Akili Announces Positive Results from Shionogi’s Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Localized Version of Akili’s EndeavorRx® for Pediatric ADHD Patients in Japan
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
No safety concerns or serious adverse events related to SDT-001 were observed. No serious adverse events were associated with its use. EndeavorRx is recommended to be used for approximately 25 minutes a day, 5 days a week, over initially at least 4 consecutive weeks, or as recommended by your child’s health care provider.
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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day
Health Populi
OCTOBER 11, 2021
COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.
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Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things
Health Populi
AUGUST 10, 2022
The researchers conclude looking back on our experience with the COVID-19 pandemic, noting this was not an isolated event in the context of Zika, malaria, dengue, Ebola, MERS and SARS among other pandemics. Reducing access to medical services, basic supplies, and/or reducing income has also been associated with outbreaks of diseases.
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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
APRIL 16, 2024
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
OCTOBER 27, 2022
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. adults in the COVID-era.
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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy
Health Populi
JUNE 18, 2021
with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One in two people in the U.S.
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Arab Health 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?
Lloyd Price
JANUARY 15, 2024
Exec Summary: Arab Health, taking place January 29th to February 1st, 2024, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, is much more than just a conference. It's a multifaceted event that plays a significant role in the global healthcare landscape, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Mental Health Risks in Mid-2022 Related More to Global Anxieties and Safety, Not-So-Much COVID
Health Populi
MAY 25, 2022
With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.”
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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 7, 2020
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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How Genomics Can Battle Killer Bacterial Infections in the Hospital – Talking With Philips at HIMSS19
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) are a worldwide challenge of epidemic, public health proportions. The World Health Organization recognizes that HAIs are a problem in both wealthy and developing countries. The Philips IntelliSpace Epidemiology Solution narrowed this down to 40 transmission events.
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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 10, 2021
Convened by HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary, the panelists – who played a critical role in developing the Riyadh Declaration – reviewed the recommendations, compared them to progress so far and outlined digital health goals for the future. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. HIMSS21 Coverage.
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EndeavorRx?, World’s First and Only Prescription Video Game Treatment, Secures FDA Label Expansion for Pediatric ADHD Patients Aged 13-17
Digital Health Global
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Overall, 4 (2.5%) participants experienced a treatment-emergent adverse device event (3 decreased frustration tolerance, 1 headache; all mild or moderate). There were no serious adverse device events. It is recommended that patients speak to their health care provider before starting EndeavorOTC treatment.
Epic vs Particle: The Data Exchange Debate
Digital Health Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Carequality is effectively one of the country’s largest health information networks, facilitating data exchange between qualified network members (i.e. Particle) who agree to only query patient data for “Permitted Purposes” such as Treatment, Health Care Operations, or Public Health Activities.
IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare
Health Populi
AUGUST 12, 2021
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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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2021
The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., PPP in the US), and in emerging markets, currency weakness.
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Carium, OMNY among HHS-backed tech accelerator picks
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 21, 2021
They will focus on health equity by design, national public health solutions, behavioral and mental health, violence prevention, socioeconomic outcome indicators, and community resilience, said HHS. OMNY Health. WHY IT MATTERS. The cohort includes: Carium. Culture Care Collective. ManagingLife. Patientory.
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PureTech Founded Entity Akili Announces Positive Results from Shionogi’s Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Localized Version of Akili’s EndeavorRx ® for Pediatric ADHD Patients in Japan
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
No safety concerns or serious adverse events related to SDT-001 were observed. No serious adverse events were associated with its use. EndeavorRx is recommended to be used for approximately 25 minutes a day, 5 days a week, over initially at least 4 consecutive weeks, or as recommended by your child’s health care provider.
Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 3, 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency? Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. You can find it, along with other sessions, here.
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COVID-19 Immunization Summary Document - use-case analysis
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 2, 2021
However when the need is for getting physical access to an event, or to Fly, or take a Train, or etc. The are to support Public Health ( PUBHLTH ), or a new purposeOfUse value that is not today in the vocabulary. It would leverage organizations like airline industry, event planning industry, etc. It is just much broader.
Vaccinations, Art and Labor Day: Learning from Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
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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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health
Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.
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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
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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Appreciating Water as a Driver of Health: Designing for Good, from the UN to Liberia and Flint, Michigan
Health Populi
APRIL 13, 2023
This event was billed in the words of the conveners, a “watershed moment to tackle the global water crisis and ensure a water-secure future.” Among these were Wi-Fi and connectivity, caregiving resources and “bandwidth,” and some of the classic social determinants of health: especially food security.
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Akili Releases EndeavorOTC™ on Android™ Devices, Expanding Treatment Access for Millions of Adults with ADHD
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. It is recommended that patients speak to their health care provider before starting EndeavorOTC treatment.
Telemedicine found to be effective for diabetes management in KSA and UAE
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 9, 2021
Additionally, telemedicine was found to support psychological wellbeing throughout the events of the pandemic, by “reducing depression and anxiety” amongst patients with diabetes.
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Cancer in the Age of COVID: Delayed Care May Reverse Survival Gains Particular Among Black People
Health Populi
JUNE 2, 2020
The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: ” How to flatten the curve of racial disparities in health? Williams and Cooper wonder.
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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 16, 2022
A self-developed remote diagnosis and treatment service platform connects with IOT medical equipment used by clinicians at local public health centres. This data (physiological and observation images) is transmitted via 5G to the cloud to specialists in large medical centres to conduct remote disease diagnosis.
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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2020
GfK looked at consumers across four significant stressful events: 9-11, natural disasters, the Great Recession, and COVID-19. “This time is different,” GfK observes, arraying impacts of security, resources, the economy, health, and other items yet to be seen. Why is this time different from these other events?
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RPM market will double in next five years, predict stakeholders
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 5, 2020
For the duration of the public health emergency triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, RPM services can be provided to both new and established patients, said the agency. You're heading off events before they become acute. If you do roll out RPM, pretty much these are the results you should expect," said Iance.
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Akili Announces Leadership Transition
Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. It is recommended that patients speak to their health care provider before starting EndeavorOTC treatment.
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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference
E-CareManagement
JUNE 27, 2021
While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. •
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Top health tech hazards for 2022: cyberattacks, supply chain shortfalls and more
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 20, 2022
"Some facilities and caregivers are now feeling the strain of using programs that were rapidly implemented during a crisis, without time for full consideration of workflow and human factors," the researchers wrote about the spike in virtual care during the public health crisis. Twitter: @kjercich.
2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings
Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 17, 2024
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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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2021
Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.
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