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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Karl Bode’s Motherboard article is intensely central to that pesky, contemporary social determinant of health that emerged so visibly in the COVID-19 pandemic: connectivity. And those problems are access, affordability, and adoption, Gonsalves concludes.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

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Privacy and data security remain a major issue, which is a particularly challenging problem when it comes to consumer-facing health and wellness apps as discussed in this New York Times article, “When Apps Get Your Medical Data, Your Privacy May Go With It.” Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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

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The article in Nature was “Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor,” demonstrating that instead of 10,000 years to analyze data, the new analytics capability enables a calculation in a matter of seconds. That, too, was a prime Dr. Topol moment, wearing his health policy hat: his belief that the U.S.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

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This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. According to the Center for Connected Health Policy , many private insurers do not reimburse for nonreal-time consultations performed via telemedicine, and even Medicaid legislation varies on a state-by-state basis.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

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They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.

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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

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Companies in the fourth party network receive consumer data for behavior analytics and advertising, among other applications, the article notes. Beyond this third-party data analysis, the research identified fourth-party sharing in the mobile app ecosystem.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

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state borders, I leave you with a link to an investigative article on NBC News last week about U.S. With the understanding that patients want access to healthcare data, and to those expert consults between doctors working across U.S. patients’ continued difficult access to “their” own data.