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HIMSS25: Digital health policy collaboration with the GDHP

Mobi Health News

The Global Digital Health Partnership works to foster international collaboration to strengthen digital health infrastructure, interoperability and system resilience globally.

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CMS puts forward meager offering for digital health in final Medicare physician fee schedule rule

FierceHealthIT

Days before the 2024 presidential election, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an unpublished version of the final calendar year 2025 physician fee schedule final rule | Digital therapeutics, telehealth, rural heath clinics and opioid treatment programs all got updates in the final 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule rule, (..)

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digital health funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph. The pandemic has accelerated funding in digital health tools across many forms, shown in Rock Health’s second chart here on top funded value and clinical propositions.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.

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

Health Populi

As someone who has tracked and worked with the digital health industry since the inception of the Internet in health care, my portfolio of advisory work has tracked with the S-curve of adoption of, broadly speaking, computers and connectivity in health care. And you’ll hear more updates from me live from #CES2025.

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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Health Populi

This speaks to the fact that in emerging countries, health citizens are often leap-frogging health access using digital health tools, compared with patients and consumers in wealthier nations which have capital-intensive, bricks-and-mortar built medical care infrastructures.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

But as I write in HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , it will take health-baked public policies and stronger privacy rights in America to bolster better personal and community health and fiscal outcomes.