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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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Innovation for all: Adapting patient-facing tools to promote digital health equity

KevinMD

The boom of telehealth and digital health during the pandemic was a necessary shift to bridge the critical access gap while also supporting the public health. Innovation for all: Adapting patient-facing tools to promote digital health equity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. Read more….

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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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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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COVID-19 relief package includes health IT expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

trillion COVID-19 relief bill sent to President Joe Biden on Wednesday includes a number of provisions aimed at expanding health IT. Biden is expected to sign the bill into law on Friday. THE LARGER TREND.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

Look at the sharp hockey-stick growth of digital health funding in JUST the first half-year of 2021 compared with 2020… the slope is rising much faster, exceeding the full-year total digital health funding level hit last year. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? ” True, U.S.