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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.

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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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Intent, Insiders/Outsiders and Insights — Disney Institute’s Women’s Leadership Summit

Health Populi

I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to spend much of this week at the inaugural Disney Institute Women’s Leadership Summit. There’s another verb that Julianna called out: “Leadership,” is not a noun, she asserted. With his vision and leadership, we eradicated measles and the Nazis, too. It’s a verb.

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“The Front Line Is Shrinking:” Nurses Re-Imagine Nursing at the #NurseHack4Health Hackathon

Health Populi

I’m grateful to the nurse leadership teams at Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, and Sonsiel for inviting me to participate in another round of t he #NurseHack4Health hackathon pitches over the past weekend. The consequences of this information gap can result in readmission, poor outcomes, or worse — major adverse events.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

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. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Akili Announces Leadership Transition

Digital Health Global

The leadership transition follows the company’s announcement in September that it plans to shift from a prescription to a non-prescription business model. I look forward to collaborating with Matt and the leadership team to explore and execute opportunities to drive success and value for shareholders in this next phase of the company.” “I

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Designing and Evaluating Interventions that have a Measurable Impact on Population Health through Evidence-Based Practices and Research

Healthcare IT Today

Through working on population health and finding what does and doesn’t work, public health initiatives have evolved. Increasing focus on identifying and addressing risks of self-harm, intimate partner violence, or sequelae of substance abuse will help decrease potentially preventable maternal adverse events.