Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

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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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

I would expand that more generally to say that UX, CX, and service design principles should/must be baked into consumer-facing connected health technologies. Furthermore, the DIY zeitgeist for home cooking and home-making also accelerated in the past five years (as it had during the 2008-9 Great Recession).

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Kiosk: Telemedicine kiosks are self-sufficient mobile healthcare sites where patients can access telemedicine care in locations such as pharmacies and grocery stores, and soon potentially in airports and college campuses.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

That was, in fact, the name of a research paper I wrote on behalf of the California Health Care Foundation in 2008. President Trump smartly expanded Medicare telehealth coverage on March 17, 2020, shortly after COVID-19 emerged as the public health emergency which has had lingering physical, mental, and fiscal impacts on U.S.

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