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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

In 2025, we will see a proliferation of sleep sub-segments such as #EG-tracking tech for sleep and stimulation; audio-based sleep aids (taking, say, the Calm app’s bedtime stories complemented by novel sonic pulse technology); circadian rhythm regulation; and, of course, devices and applications to address sleep apnea and snoring.

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

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The cost of health care also continues to dissuade over one-third of people from delaying care – even if it could put one’s health at risk, CarePayment found. Of course, skipping health care due to costs when needed is one way to decrease health and well-being. Another health risk is medical debt.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

Get FHIR, hire people who know interoperability, and make the investment on the health IT leadership side. We couldnt spend an hour chatting about Unvendor without addressing AI, which of course was another hot topic at HIMSS 2025. health care providers operating on slim margins.

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

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Donald Berwick re-named these factors that underpin our health as “The Moral Determinants of Health.”. We must connect the dots between public policy for food security, safety, and accessible nutrition; a clean environment and climate health; education; fair wages; and, of course, health security.

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

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So, of course, healthcare and healthcare costs are important to me. A patient’s right to access information regarding their healthcare is crucial and with this movement I hope we can engage and shed a light around this conversation,” Erivo asserted.

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Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition

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Telehealth was held up as a "panacea," said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

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In the United States, however, there’s been under-investment in these social determinants that closely tie to health. The American obesity challenge calls for a multi-pronged, multi-sectoral approach to nutrition, physical activity, transportation and town planning, and of course, healthcare service access.