Digital health leaders on the most noteworthy events of 2023
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
From the end of the Public Health Emergency to the launch of ChatGPT and the Apple Vision Pro, executives reflect on what stood out to them this year.
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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health
Health Populi
JULY 28, 2020
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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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2021
Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows.
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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015.
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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report
Health Populi
MARCH 10, 2025
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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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare
Health Populi
AUGUST 12, 2021
During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.
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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home
Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2020
Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019. equipment and hardware).
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“The Front Line Is Shrinking:” Nurses Re-Imagine Nursing at the #NurseHack4Health Hackathon
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The consequences of this information gap can result in readmission, poor outcomes, or worse — major adverse events. Beyond the pandemic — if we can try and think that far beyond the current and endemic phase of this public health crisis — the U.S.
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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 18, 2020
Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event taking place on 7-11 September 2020. Scaling up technology tools.
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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health
Health Populi
APRIL 7, 2020
A few articles that have informed me include… In The Atlantic , the piece The Kids Aren’t Alright explained how the youngest health citizens in the country may experience the greatest long-time mental health trauma, learning from Wuhan’s experience with C19 back to Katrina and the impacts of adverse childhood events.
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Carium, OMNY among HHS-backed tech accelerator picks
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it had launched a digital health accelerator aimed at addressing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. OMNY Health. Stakeholders will offer public information throughout the process of developing targeted action plans to address each challenge statement.
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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
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. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. The President signed the $8.3
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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist
Health Populi
JANUARY 31, 2018
Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017. .
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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2021
We brainstormed with four innovator teams in the care settings category, focusing on four quite-different health system challenges where technologies can drive positive change: How PPE can be better allocated, rationalized, and shared in local/regional health care markets. What makes a good hack, anyway?
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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 3, 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency? Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. You can find it, along with other sessions, here.
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Beyond telehealth: the virtual care technology trends that will transform healthcare
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 12, 2020
Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. The rapid upscaling of virtual care capacity and the mainstreaming of telehealth have given rise to new digital health tools.
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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. In it, I track these events and the many forces transforming U.S. Today, nearly 200,000 Americans have died due to the novel coronavirus.
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Telemedicine found to be effective for diabetes management in KSA and UAE
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 9, 2021
Additionally, telemedicine was found to support psychological wellbeing throughout the events of the pandemic, by “reducing depression and anxiety” amongst patients with diabetes.
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Akili Announces Positive Results from Shionogi’s Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Localized Version of Akili’s EndeavorRx® for Pediatric ADHD Patients in Japan
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
No safety concerns or serious adverse events related to SDT-001 were observed. No serious adverse events were associated with its use. EndeavorRx is recommended to be used for approximately 25 minutes a day, 5 days a week, over initially at least 4 consecutive weeks, or as recommended by your child’s health care provider.
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Bonus Features – February 23, 2025 – 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service, plus 25 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
Intellectual and developmental disabilities care software provider CentralReach announced an exclusive partnership with AI.Measures , which provides assessments for child mental health. The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs chose Relias to provide workforce training and resources for state public health leaders.
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Mental Health Risks in Mid-2022 Related More to Global Anxieties and Safety, Not-So-Much COVID
Health Populi
MAY 25, 2022
With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.”
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Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 30, 2024
The California ADT Network will rapidly accelerate California’s ability to positively transform health equity, public health, and Medi-Cal outcomes, which rely on robust and seamless health data sharing among all providers.”
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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)
Health Populi
JUNE 6, 2021
Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication. On the supply side, BDO surveyed 100 C-level leaders across the health care provider landscape in January 2021 to assess the executives’ views on digital health technology infrastructure and tools nearly one year into the pandemic.
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Healthcare access, racial disparities, guns and climate – U.S. doctors are worried about some big social issues
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2022
Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.
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Value-based healthcare – what it means for Thailand
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 11, 2019
However, the challenge lies in how government institutions such as the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) can meaningfully engage the private healthcare sector in moving towards VBHC. v) Health 2.0. Learn more about the HIMSS AsiaPac19 event here and those who are interested to speak or present at the event can sign up here.
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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2021
Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.
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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views
Health Populi
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Yet these aspects of data privacy (and others) are central to the needed trust bridge between patients and the health care providers, clinicians, researchers, and teams that are meant to have peoples’ best interests in bolstering their health, and more broadly community and public health. adults in the COVID-era.
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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine
Health Populi
JANUARY 7, 2019
Suffice it to say that when it comes to the exercise and wearable sports segment at #CES2019, it’s not just for elite athletes — or men — anymore — a welcome event. With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines).
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Expansion of remote tech can help safeguard care for people with disabilities
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 2, 2021
However, the public health emergency also acted as an opportunity of sorts – namely, legislative and regulatory flexibilities around telehealth revealed how care can be expanded in new ways. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Core Technologies Technology.
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Event Recap: The Importance of Remote Patient Monitoring for Health Innovation
Connected Health Initiative
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
However, more must be done to ensure that providers of all kinds and patients can access these digital health tools moving forward. Dr. Lucienne Ide, founder and CEO of Rimidi, highlighted the growth of remote monitoring during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and urged policymakers to embrace the change.
Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2
Health Populi
APRIL 16, 2024
Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Telehealth happens across the U.S.
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Pear Suite Strengthens Maternal and Child Health by Empowering Birthworkers with Innovative Technology
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Pear Suites platform is designed to bridge these gaps, allowing doulas to streamline communication, document health and social needs, and access real-time data insights to improve outcomes. About Pear Suite Pear Suite is a digital health company that empowers community workers to address the social determinants of health (SDOH).
In charting a future course for healthcare, let’s think bigger
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 4, 2022
Angela Jones Angela Jones is a program manager in digital health transformation at Booz Allen Hamilton. Disruptive technologies based on intelligent sensors, AI engines, and augmented reality have the potential to improve the quality of care by decreasing adverse events and significantly reduce disability and death.
How MedModular Fits Into the New Lower-Cost, High-Quality, Consumer-Enchanted Healthcare World
Health Populi
OCTOBER 5, 2018
When we think beyond the initial building and capital outlay, healthcare can also can benefit from a lower cost of operating considering MedModular’s modular ability to adapt to changing demands, technologies, workflows, and public health wild cards like natural disasters and viral epidemics.
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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine
Health Populi
JANUARY 28, 2021
The future of immune health. Resetting events with wellness. I’ll focus on #1, although mindfulness and mental health play into every single one of the eight other trends in the GWI line-up. Spiritual and numinous moments in architecture. Just breathe! The self-care renaissance. Money out loud (on financial wellness).
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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2024
In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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NHS ConfedExpo 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?
Lloyd Price
MAY 6, 2024
Exec Summary: NHS ConfedExpo 2024 is set to be one of the largest and most significant health and care conferences in the UK, attracting over 5,400 delegates across two days. The event, which NHS Confederation and NHS England deliver in partnership, will once again bring together health and care leaders and their teams.
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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Department of Health and Human Services to be much more active in the enforcement of healthcare privacy following recent, and increasing, events like the data breach with Change Healthcare. Taking a deeper look, privacy, and security of health data are critical to ensure that care is provided in and with confidence.
Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like
Health Populi
JUNE 6, 2023
In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.
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#090: Ending the HIV Epidemic with guests Dr. John Sargent and KP Yelpaala
Digital Health Today
AUGUST 27, 2019
While our conversation focuses specifically on a project tackling HIV, there are some great tools and practices being deployed that can address other chronic diseases and health challenges. Back for his second appearance on Digital Health Today is KP Yelpaala. Download notes about ending HIV with Digital Health.
EndeavorRx?, World’s First and Only Prescription Video Game Treatment, Secures FDA Label Expansion for Pediatric ADHD Patients Aged 13-17
Digital Health Global
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Overall, 4 (2.5%) participants experienced a treatment-emergent adverse device event (3 decreased frustration tolerance, 1 headache; all mild or moderate). There were no serious adverse device events. It is recommended that patients speak to their health care provider before starting EndeavorOTC treatment.
Akili Releases EndeavorOTCTM Video Game Treatment to Improve Attention in Adults with ADHD
Digital Health Global
JUNE 7, 2023
As the gap between demand for care and availability of effective treatments widens, Akili released EndeavorOTC under FDA’s enforcement policy established shortly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate rapid access to certain low-risk, mental health-related digital health devices.
Akili Announces Amended Agreement with Shionogi, Shift in Corporate Strategy and Release Date for First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
Digital Health Global
APRIL 30, 2024
EndeavorOTC is available under the FDA’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. It is recommended that patients speak to their health care provider before starting EndeavorOTC treatment.
8 benefits of Telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
In a Japanese single-centered study, remote cardiac monitoring patients dramatically profited from shortened notification time of events and waiting times. Digital symptom calendars and diagnostic tools support treatment decisions and speed. BMC Public Health. Npj Digital Medicine. Monagesh et al. Gandapur et al.
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