Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday/Sunday edition featured a big story on the economic force of women in the summer of 2023, termed “the women’s multiplier effect” — that women’s spending is a powerful force in the U.S. economy (and as it turns out, in Sweden’s economy as well).

Public Health 156

Public Health Health Policy 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

You know a topic is important when leading media sites like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal become irrational and contribute to the general cacophony – even offering up worries from, wait for it, Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt – Kissinger is 98, but apparently still trying out new software tools.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

Now even the Wall Street Journal tech writer searches ways to get elusive vaccine appointments scheduled for older friends and relatives. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health. News organizations rarely discussed tech adoption among seniors.

Health Technology 114

Health Technology Nursing Digital Health 114

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

You may have read a depressing article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the number of people stuck in hospitals with no place to go because there are no nursing homes to take them – which is the status in the UK’s National Health System (NHS). It's news -- 600 nursing homes closed so what’s the strategy to fix?

Nursing 69

Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

You know a topic is important when leading media sites like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal become irrational and contribute to the general cacophony – even offering up worries from, wait for it, Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt – Kissinger is 98, but apparently still trying out new software tools.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

According to the Wall Street Journal article, Tesla promised to release safety data on its self-driving tech regularly starting next quarter, though they have not said what sort of data and what could be gleaned from it -- perhaps in advance of another series (see link) of crashes. Will fraudsters buy in to this, uh, trend? .

mHealth 67

mHealth Digital Health Interoperability Telehealth 67

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 9, 2018

The Wall Street Journal is not a junk website, but because I used Chrome on a big display screen to search for closet built-ins, the first-displayed ad for one of those companies ate up the upper one-third of the screen real estate. category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking.

Telehealth 69

Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

According to the Wall Street Journal article, Tesla promised to release safety data on its self-driving tech regularly starting next quarter, though they have not said what sort of data and what could be gleaned from it -- perhaps in advance of another series (see link) of crashes. How comforting.

Nursing 60

Nursing 60

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Wall Street Journal special report on Artificial Intelligence today included consumer views on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Unfortunately in the public eye (surveyed by the Wall Street Journal), only 11% would be willing to adopt them. Do consumers trust driverless cars to be safer than their own driving?

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Public Health 116