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

Health Populi

adults seeking medical information online, there is a ripe market for so-called “health influencers” and other bad actors to put out mis-information for profit and notoriety, with the rate of unsafe treatments putting people at-risk of adverse events and medical mishaps. With 3 in 5 U.S.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

Among these events are Amazon’s plan to acquire One Medical , Apple’s publication of the paper, Empowering People to Live a Healthier Day , and other news that, together with these line items, signal a shake-up of American health care as we know it.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

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One of the long-time exhibitors at CES is Withings, who once again showed off a host of new-new things for personal health and wellness at CES 2020. Well-known for its direct-to-consumer connected health devices in the forms of weight scales and fitness watches, Withings announced focused on sleep and heart health in its CES 2020 launches.

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The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Health Populi

That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment. My own thought-patterns have begun to organize and assess the economic impacts of this historic adverse event on the U.S.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It also demonstrated the power and utility of increasingly powerful yet affordable connected health devices, which could be distributed to populations who need them most as important sentinel surveillance tools. Department of Health and Human Services published the long-awaited interoperability final rules from CMS and ONC.

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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI

Health Populi

That context puts this year’s NurseHack4Health event all the more essential and impactful. ” This is the key finding in a study from PRC on the implications of nurses’ dis-engagement from their work.

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