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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

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At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

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During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

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and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

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Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

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a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). between 2013 and 2016.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

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This is shown in the third graphic, the line chart showing the hockey-stick growth of synthetic opioids since 2013. ” Three years later, there’s little national/Federal progress on resourcing the social determinants and personal/household economies that could help turnaround this public health challenge.

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

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In the US, the change in the 5-year compound annual growth rate of wages fell 2% comparing 1995-2000 and 2013-18; the poverty rate grew 2 percent between 2000-16. As we enter the wild-card era of corona virus in the midst of an eroded public health system and response, these studies are particularly timely…but so sobering.