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Event Recap: Health Equity Through Wearables: Reducing Costs, Saving Lives

Connected Health Initiative

Panel Recap Representing a wide range of health industry experience, the panelists shared insights into challenges and opportunities in using technology to improve health equity. The post Event Recap: Health Equity Through Wearables: Reducing Costs, Saving Lives first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

Health Populi

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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Trust in Health Care 5 Years After COVID Began – an Edelman Trust Barometer Update

Health Populi

health citizens’ results on trust in an institution/organization to do what is right in the event of another pandemic. 49% of people trust the World Health Organization to do what is right in the event of a pandemic, 45% trust the U.S. health system, and 43% trust pharma companies. ” In the U.S.,

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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

GfK looked at consumers across four significant stressful events: 9-11, natural disasters, the Great Recession, and COVID-19. “This time is different,” GfK observes, arraying impacts of security, resources, the economy, health, and other items yet to be seen. Why is this time different from these other events?

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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

Health Populi

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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HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: HLTH 2024 Las Vegas is expected to be a major event in the healthcare industry, focusing on innovation, collaboration, and the future of healthcare. The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. The future of healthcare financing and payment models.