Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g., Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. alarm hazards, med errors related to pounds vs. kilograms, mix-up of IV lines), noting several issues still plaguing the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. On average, U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Every year, keeping eyes and ears wide open, I spot something adjacent or somehow influential on health or well-being. My favorite example of this discovery happened at CES in 2015: that would make it a decade ago.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Rock Health’s top-line findings were that: Patient-generated health data creates opportunity, and potential challenges. of total consumers, followed by: 9.6%

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

I hearken back to a favorite column from JAMA published in 2015 but retaining its relevance ongoing: Value-Based Payments Require Valuing What Matters to Patients. Convenience, adherence, and relationship — these are areas that patients value, and physicians see the role of tech in bolstering these features.

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