Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2018

World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. The post On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. At Health Populi and THINK-Health, we celebrate the birthday of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), allied with the United Nations.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 9, 2018

Google has unleashed a tidal wave of product and feature updates through the ongoing Google I/O developers’ conference, and it’s no surprise that the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare was a recurring spotlight among them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Physicians are changing the patterns of their practice because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly half of them using telehealth to treat patients, up from just 18% in 2018. The 2018 survey had indicated that telemedicine use among physicians was more prominent among younger doctors. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 23, 2019

If the recent trend of IPOs keeps up, more and more digital companies will have their revenue numbers out in the open. But in the meantime, for private companies, we have to take those numbers where we can find them, which is why each year MobiHealthNews parses Inc. Magazine's Inc.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A collection of 29 approvals and clearances by the US Food and Drug Administration include several novel products.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 18, 2018

Although it hasn’t yet established its place as a mainstream treatment modality, virtual reality has grown from an interesting diversion into a frequent topic of conversation within digital health.

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Digital Health

JANUARY 16, 2018

I missed the 2018 Computer Electronics Show this year (it overlapped with JP Morgan’s Healthcare Conference) so I had to rely on the kindness of friends and media to send me alerts on the weirdest digital stuff on earth. CES is chockablock with things no one needs and no one should have even thought to […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 25, 2020

The project began in 2018 when the HHS evaluated the current state of its data sharing.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 23, 2019

Now at the end of 2018, we’re augmenting that list to give you a full picture of what we think are must-haves medical apps for those in primary care. Earlier this year, we put together a list of what we thought were the best medical apps for health care providers. Safe Motherhood Initiative: ACOG DII SMI […].

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2018

At the bottom of the list for honesty and ethics in 2018, Gallup points to U.S. “Nursing is at the heart of health care,” the 2018 National Council of State Boards of Nursing report on nursing supply in 2018 attested.

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The California Department of Justice mandate to consult CURES (Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation) prior to prescribing, ordering, administering, or furnishing a Schedule II, II or IV controlled substance becomes effective on October 2, 2018. CURES must be consulted every four months thereafter if the.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 24, 2019

Amazon sent Prime users an email advertising virtual pharmacy PillPack, which the company acquired in 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A group of researchers led by Assistant Professor Shao Huilin at the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) located at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is working on the development of a rapid Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) detection kit, based on the enVision technology platform which they invented in 2018.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 24, 2020

This brings Castor's total funding to over $18 million, following an earlier investment from INKEF Capital in 2018. Two Sigma Ventures led the round with participation from Hambrecht Ducera Growth Ventures and existing investor INKEF Capital. WHAT IT DOES

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In its Q3 2018 earnings call, the company said that diversifying its business model has help stem losses from the declining fitness tracker market.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 7, 2018

A drug no longer needs to be a tangible object, according to panelist at the BIO 2018 convention in Boston. The way the pharma industry looks at medication is evolving and may be including new tech-focused treatments, such as digital therapeutics.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of household income.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2022

With the 2018 lens to guide the market today, here are a few ways the user experience and thus the ecosystem may ratchet upwards: Natural language and especially AI will improve – no upgrade required.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Lawmakers and industry groups questioned why a registry for telemedicine providers similar to the existing prescribing of controlled substances system – which the DEA has a responsibility to create under the 2018 Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act or SUPPORT Act – (..)

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Compared with 2018, all online health search topics fell in engagement except for smoking/vaping. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Clearly, while supporting older peoples’ healthy living at home was part of Best Buy Health’s initial vision that went public in August 2018, the pandemic has accelerated the demand for services the Lively Flip supports.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

The findings echo broader trends highlighted by the National Poll on Healthy Aging conducted in 2o23, which documented a jump in patient portal usage to 78 percent in 2023 from 51 percent in 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. 2018 – As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 23, 2022

Formerly known as IDx, the company received FDA De Novo clearance in 2018 for its IDx-DR system used to detect diabetic retinopathy.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 6, 2018

During an afternoon roundtable session held yesterday at BIO 2018 in Boston, a panel of digital medicine and pharmaceutical representatives discussed the impact that these novel medicines has had, and could have, on drugmakers, regulators, and those prescribing the medications.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

“Among the 184 most commonly prescribed drugs in Medicare Part D in 2018, 90% could be purchased at Costco for less than $20 for a 30-day supply.” billion more in 2018 for 184 common generic medications compared with prices for the same drugs available to cash-paying Costco members.” Now: consider Costco.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Adults Aged 18 and Over , published in November 2018. Headspace Health launched in June 2018 as a digital health company to build the evidence-based for mainstream healthcare adoption. These data come out of the NCHS’s Data Brief, Use of Yoga, Meditation, and Chiropractors Among U.S. One in five women do yoga in America.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

At a recent online event, Novartis Chief Digital Officer Betrand Bodson gave an update on a digital strategy that began in 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

There was a survey done by PC Magazine in 2018 written up in an article titled, Would you trade your personal data for free online services? Alternatively, I re-phrase the iconic book my girlfriends and I read and re-read, by now dog-eared on our bookshelves: Our Bodies, Our Selves.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

based healthcare IT leaders for the survey in October 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Unisys published their 2018 Security Index , finding growing global insecurity concerns among consumers about the internet, identity theft and bankcard fraud — ahead of terrorism, natural disaster and epidemic threats.

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Clocktree

JULY 25, 2019

The number of US physicians who list telemedicine as a skill doubled from 2015 to 2018, according to a recent study done by Doximity , a network of healthcare professionals. The study also reports significant growth in telemedicine patient visits, which increased annually by 261 percent between 2015 and 2017.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

“Consumers are not disciplined about saving in general,” with saving for healthcare lagging behind other types of savings, Alegeus observes in the 2018 Alegeus Consumer Health & Financial Fluency Report. This has inched up above 6% in recent months of 2018, but still below 7%. Alegeus surveyed 1,400 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. Americans borrowed $88 billion in 2018 to pay for health care spending, West Health and Gallup estimated. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

A recent study published in Nature found 37% of deaths related to heat exposure around the world between 1991 and 2018 were related to global warming caused by humans. Moreover, one in three European deaths from heat between 1990-2018 is estimated to be attributed to human-induced global warming. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S. The pandemic drove U.S.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 25, 2023

New survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reinforcing doctors’ warnings that the medical field is crumbling under a largely unaddressed mental health crisis and a | Survey data outlining healthcare workers' worsening mental health and workplace difficulties comes alongside new calls for action from the CDC and (..)

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