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Vaccinations, Art and Labor Day: Learning from Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford

Health Populi

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.” Both shots?

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

In health care, outdated operating systems present some of the greatest risks: 15% of medical devices and 32% of medical imaging tools run on outdated operating systems. “During the chaos and confusion, threat actors launched cyberattacks,” Ordr observed in the wake of the public health crisis.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

The key safety implications here are lack of access to pediatric behavioral health providers, drug and alcohol use, gun violence, and other stressors. ages 12 to 17 presented to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts in the winter of 2021 — 39% greater than in the same period in 2019.

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Reflecting on the Importance of Ethics in Clinical Care and Research

Society for Participatory Medicine

We are all familiar with deplorable abuses of human subjects in research, such as medical interventions without informed consent, and experimentation in concentration camps during World War II. As a result we developed the four principles of health care ethics to support ourselves as we provide patient care.

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Element Science Receives CE Mark & UKCA Mark for the Jewel® Patch-Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator

Digital Health Global

The Jewel IDE Study, a pivotal study of 305 patients presented at the American Heart Association’s 2023 Annual Scientific Sessions demonstrated significant patient compliance and protected time resulting in a high number of successful patient saves and no deaths or serious adverse events related to the device ( www.ElementScience.com/ide-study/ ).

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

Health Populi

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Heart health at home.