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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

Importantly, impactfully in terms of health care, three-fourths of folks using medical devices at home said after receiving that alert, their issue was successfully diagnosed once consulting with a doctor. Thus the call for being design-ful along the way of designing, deploying, and supporting connected health devices.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

Health Populi

” The implementation of electronic health records, spurred on by the HITECH Act which was embedded in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the Stimulus Bill) resulted in lots of EHRs deployed in hospitals and doctor’s offices, with huge gaps in interoperability and data liquidity.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

A few topics that pique my interest address benefits for people and their pets, AI for everyday peoples’ health, and the assertively (spot-on) titled session, “don’t build more healthtech without asking patients first.”. I’ll be looking for consumer-facing solutions to lessen this fiscal-health challenge.

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More accolades for Topol as ‘connected health’ gains

Meaningful HIT News

As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business. Meanwhile, this week we get more evidence that “connected health” may be winning the terminology battle over mobile, wireless and digital health.

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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by the pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business.

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