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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

Ten years ago here in Health Populi , I wrote about New Year’s Resolutions for Health and the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Then, one-third of consumers were keen to buy health tracking technology but most of those people were healthy, CTA’s research found.

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ATA Policy Summit: Telemedicine Policy Topics Ripped from the Headlines

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The program for the ATA Federal Telemedicine Policy Summit (June 27-28 in Washington, DC) is designed to give you insider perspective on the big policy issues facing remote healthcare. We all know what these policy hot topics are—they’re splayed throughout the industry press on a daily basis.

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GAO: rural hospital closures increasing, South hardest hit

Henry Kotula

Between 2013 and 2017, 64 rural hospitals closed due to financial distress and changing healthcare dynamics, more than twice the number in the previous five years, a new Government Accountability Office analysis shows. . Dive Brief: Hospitals across the U.S.

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Seattle Coronavirus Care: Short in Staff, Supplies and Space

Henry Kotula

On a per-person basis, the state lags most others in nurses and hospital rooms designed to isolate patients with infectious, airborne diseases, according to a nationwide index of health-security measures. The state’s greatest strength, according to the index, is in its ability to detect public-health threats and contain them — scoring 8.5

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Health Populi

Abner then went to Mexico and witnessed the emergence of telemedicine there. which was under-served by the nation’s health care system, realizing the promise of virtual care could have a positive impact for these patients. What he didn’t realize at the time was that “we were a company trying to solve health disparities.”.

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Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Digital Health Global

She provides her expertise in weight loss both locally and nationally through various media outlets as well as telemedicine. is a Florida-based primary care physician, menopause specialist, and population health expert focused on improving health care access and design, particularly for women. She received her M.D.