2015 Medical Technology Public Health 
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.
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. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.
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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.
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. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015.
Health Populi
MARCH 23, 2021
.’… What I think we all need to work on and move toward – and certainly within the ONC, we’re doing our best to do this – is thinking about health equity by design.” ” Dr. Winston Wong and colleagues wrote an essay in JAMA in April 2015 called Achieving Health Equity by Design.
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