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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

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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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How Whirlpool’s #CareCounts Campaign Bolsters a Key Social Determinant of Health

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Since 2015, Whirlpool has donated to 82 schools in 18 cities, impacting about 38,000 young students, according to company statistics. I saw this sign, talked with the Whirlpool team about “care,” and referred to this theme in my write-up of CES here on Health Populi in January 2015.

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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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Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories. Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

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Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. consumers would be most willing to share their health data. with Apple.

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

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

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

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consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Smart appliances, increasing to at least one per broadband household from 33% of homes in 2015 to 42% in 2020.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

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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.