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My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

Health Populi

Last month, long-time colleague and friend Colin Hung interviewed me on the #HITMC broadcast to discuss a lovely recognition I’d received: HIT Advocate of the Year , a program highlighting various friends-in-the-field active in digital health, communications and marketing, sponsored by Medigy. Anthony Fauci Fan Club.”

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A Citizen’s Response Corps for Digital Health

Society for Participatory Medicine

Tom Ferguson , highlights how COVID-19 long haulers are the most cutting-edge example, and points to how their methods can be applied to 21st century public health challenges. The answer was in organic peer-to-peer health communities, and the Patient Led Research Collaborative was the most effective version she had ever seen.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. ” And here is another mainstream media take on Melissa’s “secret battle with depression” in People magazine, 22nd March 2021.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

TIME magazine’s coverage of how CES featured telehealth covered four stories including Abbott’s Neurosphere, Jasper Health’s oncology platform, EarlySense InSight at Home, and BioIntelliSense biosticker and biobutton devices for remote patient monitoring. Nearly one-half of U.S. CES recognized OMRON’s U.S.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp

Digital Health Today

She continued to have an impact throughout her life, supporting public health campaigns, criticizing the Poor Laws, and opposing the arrest of prostitutes for disease. Joshua Hammer for the Smithsonian Magazine. Digital Health Today would not be possible without our valuable partners. Thomas Hospital in 1860.

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