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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange An FDA project aims to make it as easy as possible for clinicians to report adverse drug events and share important clinical data with public health agencies to investigate the event.

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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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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. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Through the initiative , the health system will jointly develop artificial intelligence-based decision-support tools for earlier detection of adverse events in patients of varying acuities. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

The researchers conclude looking back on our experience with the COVID-19 pandemic, noting this was not an isolated event in the context of Zika, malaria, dengue, Ebola, MERS and SARS among other pandemics. Reducing access to medical services, basic supplies, and/or reducing income has also been associated with outbreaks of diseases.

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JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One in two people in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) are a worldwide challenge of epidemic, public health proportions. The World Health Organization recognizes that HAIs are a problem in both wealthy and developing countries. The Philips IntelliSpace Epidemiology Solution narrowed this down to 40 transmission events.

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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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OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action. Heat-related illness.

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APRIL 14, 2020

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. But the immediate pivot to virtual events, and the spring launch of the HIMSS20 Digital event proved the value of knowledge-sharing and connection, even at a distance.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Providers, researchers and government officials gathered Tuesday to discuss the "urgent public health crisis" of gun violence and throw their weight behind a new multimillion-dollar aware | The event, which emphasized the role of healthcare professionals in addressing gun violence, came with the announcement of an industry-backed, multimillion-dollar (..)

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Walgreens announced appointment scheduling for the boosters, and CVS Health discussed the plans for the updated vaccine administration on their website as well. As Science magazine’s coverage of this public health event noted , “Omicron booster shots are coming — with lots of questions.”

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JUNE 24, 2021

The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., PPP in the US), and in emerging markets, currency weakness.

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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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On the physical health front, heat waves have expanded mosquito habitats leading to pollution-related and vector-borne diseases: think dengue, malaria, and Zika’s impacts on public health around the world. Thanks to the smart folks at NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , an agenda of the U.S.

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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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JUNE 2, 2020

The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: ” How to flatten the curve of racial disparities in health? Williams and Cooper wonder.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

They will focus on health equity by design, national public health solutions, behavioral and mental health, violence prevention, socioeconomic outcome indicators, and community resilience, said HHS. OMNY Health. WHY IT MATTERS. The cohort includes: Carium. Culture Care Collective. ManagingLife. Patientory.

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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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AUGUST 5, 2020

For the duration of the public health emergency triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, RPM services can be provided to both new and established patients, said the agency. You're heading off events before they become acute. If you do roll out RPM, pretty much these are the results you should expect," said Iance.

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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.

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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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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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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

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JANUARY 16, 2022

A self-developed remote diagnosis and treatment service platform connects with IOT medical equipment used by clinicians at local public health centres. This data (physiological and observation images) is transmitted via 5G to the cloud to specialists in large medical centres to conduct remote disease diagnosis.

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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. Learn more about the HIMSS & Health 2.0

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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most physicians (69%) said they felt “colloquial depression” versus 20% who self-diagnosed with clinical depression — several depression lasting some time, not caused by a normal grief event. How does that depression affect patient relationships? As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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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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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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AUGUST 14, 2023

The Taylor Swift Eras Tour, slated to raise $1 billion when it’s completed, generating financial benefits to the towns she’s staged the event, giving those local economies a boost according to the Federal Reserve July Beige Book. The crowds at these cultural events showcase women’s agency and voice.”

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JANUARY 20, 2022

"Some facilities and caregivers are now feeling the strain of using programs that were rapidly implemented during a crisis, without time for full consideration of workflow and human factors," the researchers wrote about the spike in virtual care during the public health crisis. Twitter: @kjercich.

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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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