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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

Importantly, impactfully in terms of health care, three-fourths of folks using medical devices at home said after receiving that alert, their issue was successfully diagnosed once consulting with a doctor. Thus the call for being design-ful along the way of designing, deploying, and supporting connected health devices.

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While mental health issues were already mainstream across health citizens around the world before the COVID-19 pandemic was termed a “pandemic” in March 2020, peoples’ mental well-being eroded during the public health crisis and since then, more people have put a name to their situations and sought (..)

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3 in 4 U.S. Patients Say the Healthcare System is Broken — But Technology Can Help

Health Populi

While technology can scale some service delivery and transparency, we should be mindful to design apps and tools and tech-enabled services with principles of ethics-by-design, privacy-by-design, and public health principles promoting access and equity.

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CTA Tech Trends to Watch for 2025 – Health-Context for Kicking off #CES2025

Health Populi

For Health Populi readers, we can see that all five of these 2025 tech-trends can support connected health for individual patients, communities, and public health. As consumers have adopted base hardware technologies (e.g.,

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Health Commons Project Completes Acquisition of OneHealthPort to Advance Healthcare Innovation and Access across Washington State

Healthcare IT Today

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents.

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Vitamin Sleep – Sleep-Tech Innovations from #CES2025

Health Populi

Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit health?