Digital health leaders on the most noteworthy events of 2023
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
From the end of the Public Health Emergency to the launch of ChatGPT and the Apple Vision Pro, executives reflect on what stood out to them this year.
FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange
Healthcare IT Today
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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Obesity is a Public Health Epidemic in the U.S. — The Case for GLP-1 Coverage, Affordability and Equity
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.
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How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors
Health Populi
JULY 15, 2020
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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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health
Health Populi
JULY 28, 2020
This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.
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Event Recap: The Importance of Remote Patient Monitoring for Health Innovation
Connected Health Initiative
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Asynchronous remote monitoring tools—already proven to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, augment population health management, and support the healthcare workforce—are now critical in confronting healthcare access and quality disparities that too many Americans find themselves on the wrong side of.
Machine learning algorithm helps Bluetooth contact tracing systems discern per-event risk of COVID-19 transmission
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 8, 2020
The novel approach could help public health authorities focus their contact tracing and quarantine efforts on those at greater risk of infection.
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Experts, government outline healthcare strategies for gun violence prevention at Northwell's annual forum
FierceHealthIT
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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Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 30, 2024
The California ADT Network will rapidly accelerate California’s ability to positively transform health equity, public health, and Medi-Cal outcomes, which rely on robust and seamless health data sharing among all providers.”
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The Impacts of Heat on Health Across All Dimensions – from Death to “Heat-Flation” on the Pocketbook
Health Populi
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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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2021
Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows.
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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
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.
Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association
Health Populi
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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It is Time for the Healthcare Industry to Reexamine Cybersecurity Preparedness in the Face of Unprecedented Risk
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 8, 2024
According to one study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , roughly three in 100 hospitalized Medicare patients will die in the hospital under normal conditions, but during a ransomware attack, that number increases to four out of 100 because of the strain on hospital resources.
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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day
Health Populi
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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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.
Health Populi
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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Leveraging Data Analytics and Technology to Address Population Health Challenges and Identify Trends
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 30, 2024
We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – How are health organizations leveraging data analytics and technology to address population health challenges and identify trends that can inform public health interventions? The following are their answers.
Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things
Health Populi
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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NHS ConfedExpo 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?
Lloyd Price
MAY 6, 2024
Exec Summary: NHS ConfedExpo 2024 is set to be one of the largest and most significant health and care conferences in the UK, attracting over 5,400 delegates across two days. The event, which NHS Confederation and NHS England deliver in partnership, will once again bring together health and care leaders and their teams.
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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy
Health Populi
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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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views
Health Populi
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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Akili Announces Positive Results from Shionogi’s Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Localized Version of Akili’s EndeavorRx® for Pediatric ADHD Patients in Japan
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
No safety concerns or serious adverse events related to SDT-001 were observed. No serious adverse events were associated with its use. EndeavorRx is recommended to be used for approximately 25 minutes a day, 5 days a week, over initially at least 4 consecutive weeks, or as recommended by your child’s health care provider.
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Mental Health Risks in Mid-2022 Related More to Global Anxieties and Safety, Not-So-Much COVID
Health Populi
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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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change
Health Populi
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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Cleveland Clinic and Amazon to launch coordinated care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
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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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020
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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Board Meeting Minutes, June 25, 2024
Society for Participatory Medicine
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Have relationships with large health care systems. Both Planetree and Beryl need something like our survey Foundations next steps Are there events we should be attending/getting involved in? NE HIMSS (Oct) event re: tech. Jay will investigate PEX event; any others. Who will volunteer to review? Get Danny on stage.
Arab Health 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?
Lloyd Price
JANUARY 15, 2024
Exec Summary: Arab Health, taking place January 29th to February 1st, 2024, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, is much more than just a conference. It's a multifaceted event that plays a significant role in the global healthcare landscape, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 23, 2022
A couple weeks ago, Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner closed and Oracle held an event to announce the vision for the The Future of Healthcare. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health. Ellison highlighted how public health didn’t have a way to look across the health of a population.
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How Genomics Can Battle Killer Bacterial Infections in the Hospital – Talking With Philips at HIMSS19
Health Populi
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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“The Front Line Is Shrinking:” Nurses Re-Imagine Nursing at the #NurseHack4Health Hackathon
Health Populi
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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Apple Unveils Innovative Health Features for Sleep Apnea and Hearing Health
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Sleep, Circadian, and Neurosciences’s professor and director in Tucson, Arizona. “T T his is a major step forward in improving public health. T his is a major step forward in improving public health.
Healthcare access, racial disparities, guns and climate – U.S. doctors are worried about some big social issues
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2022
Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.
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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2
Health Populi
APRIL 16, 2024
Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Telehealth happens across the U.S.
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Carium, OMNY among HHS-backed tech accelerator picks
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
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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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare
Health Populi
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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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch
Health Populi
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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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
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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EndeavorRx?, World’s First and Only Prescription Video Game Treatment, Secures FDA Label Expansion for Pediatric ADHD Patients Aged 13-17
Digital Health Global
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Overall, 4 (2.5%) participants experienced a treatment-emergent adverse device event (3 decreased frustration tolerance, 1 headache; all mild or moderate). There were no serious adverse device events. It is recommended that patients speak to their health care provider before starting EndeavorOTC treatment.
SA Telestroke doubles rural treatment capacity after cloud shift
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
In stroke care, "time is brain," and that is why it is important to never delay treatment every minute following the onset of an event. "Every minute counts with a stroke, and the faster we can deliver treatment, the better, to help save lives," said SA Health Minister Christ Picton.
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COVID-19 Immunization Summary Document - use-case analysis
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 2, 2021
However when the need is for getting physical access to an event, or to Fly, or take a Train, or etc. The are to support Public Health ( PUBHLTH ), or a new purposeOfUse value that is not today in the vocabulary. It would leverage organizations like airline industry, event planning industry, etc. It is just much broader.
Vaccinations, Art and Labor Day: Learning from Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford
Health Populi
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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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health
Health Populi
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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Telemedicine found to be effective for diabetes management in KSA and UAE
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
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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