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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Sage Therapeutics Appoints Jessica Federer to Board of Directors

Digital Health Global

Federer is a managing partner at Supernode Ventures where she is working to address a critical gap in innovation by accelerating change through investment in women’s health and health technology companies as early as possible in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds. Department of Health and Human Services.

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VA awards millions to veteran suicide tech challenge winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Veterans Affairs has announced the winners of the Mission Daybreak Grand Challenge, part of a 10-year strategy to end veteran suicide through a comprehensive, public health approach. Televeda’s Project Hózhó is the first mental health app for American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. An important keystone for any healthcare strategy for chronic disease is patient self-management. Among them is drug addiction.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Sherry Rais, Co-Founder and CEO at Enthea Increased focus on mental and emotional well-being: Employers will continue to prioritize mental health benefits, offering more comprehensive coverage and support programs. Employers and insurers will offer incentives for employees to use these technologies.

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Everybody is Stressed in America, and It’s Not Good for Our Health: the 2023 Update from the American Psychological Association

Health Populi

The APA has been quantifying Stress in America since 2007; for context, at the end of that year The Great Recession kicked in , and in response President Obama’s team put together assistance to bolster the national economy, jobs, and health technology (codified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).