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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

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In that quarter-century since Negroponte made that prescient observation, we come to better understand that being a Digital Society has its upsides and downfalls, alike. This is why I so often repeat that broadband connectivity is a social determinant of health. Healthcare is now embedded into The Digital Society.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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allocates more national spending to health care than any other country (among these OECD nations as well as countries not included in this research). In 2019, that reached nearly 17% of the national economy. It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digital health funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

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Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0 This year’s conference will convene thought leaders across a range of themes, and as is the Health 2.0

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As Why a World Health Day? you may be asking.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

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Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference. More people going into health care jobs, he continued, with the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics illustrating that we’re adding more human capital to a broken health care system.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

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The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

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The post Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. If anyone can help us close the gap between what’s possible for telehealth versus where we are “now,” it’s this CEO of ATA.