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How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors

Health Populi

In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health. That was a watershed moment in U.S.

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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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This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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In charting a future course for healthcare, let’s think bigger

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At the individual level, these capabilities can translate into earlier and potentially more reliable diagnoses and better treatment options; at the broader population level, it can translate into quicker, data driven insights to improve public health and policy decisions. Some important considerations. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

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The Commonwealth Fund has conducted this study since 2006 , assessing a range of health system indicators and patient outcomes to track trends over time identifying which U.S. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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Food, Housing, Energy and Medical Care – the Material Hardships of COVID-19 in America

Health Populi

These impacts, of course, have more severely hurt people whose families lost jobs, had work hours cutback, or lost work-related income. Among the hardships, food security was the most-felt, by one in three working adults. “How can we keep families fed?

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.