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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

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. Using public transportation (63%). Taking a train (63%). Flying internationally (80%).

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Training the tech support. These bolster, Education, from early childhood through vocational training and higher ed. The team points to the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, which maintains a list of organizations providing such training and acts as a clearinghouse for such resources. Connectivity. Applications.

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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

Lloyd Price

Digital health technologies can be used to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery, provide remote care to patients in rural areas, and collect and analyze data to improve public health. ADHI aims to improve access to quality healthcare in Africa by supporting the development and use of digital health technologies.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium

Health Populi

Among many smart reasons, the city is welcoming, our farm-to-table food style is doable, the walkability is brilliant, and the transportation options are accessible to places we need to go to work — fast trains to Paris, London, Amsterdam, and a good airport with connections to other European cities where we see clients.

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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Health systems can take a number of steps toward ensuring the benefits of virtual care are fully realized, they said, including pushing for expanded broadband access and reimbursement incentives. THE LARGER TREND. The data emerging from telehealth patterns amid the pandemic has suggested that virtual care use may be a complicated issue.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. They are licensed, trained, and tested for service. They are, in my evolving concept of the health/care ecosystem, retail health’s front-line workers. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I

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