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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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

Health Populi

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. So let’s face SDoH head on.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. Reported in MIT Technology Review on December 19, 2022.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

Cosgrove recently left his CEO post at Cleveland Clinic, where he pioneered telemedicine and virtual health in and beyond the Cleveland target market to the larger healthcare ecosystem. Cleveland Clinic is a prime example of a hospital system imagining and re-shaping what a hospital will be in the future.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Health Populi

The issue of health care costs, and in particular out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, continues to be a priority for most U.S. voters across political party.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.