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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

Increasingly, that connectivity has enabled people — as patients, consumers, caregivers, Chief Household-Health Officers, self-care proponents, and Quantified Self’ers tracking the most intimate of metrics — to use technology for health, medical, and well-being goals.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

Given that Harm recently participated in the annual 2025 HIMSS conference , I was keen to know how his collegial physicians and health IT professionals were reacting to the idea of unvendoring. RPA is a great example of health technology in the unvendor environment. health care providers operating on slim margins.

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What is a Consumer Health Company? Riffing Off of Deloitte’s Report on CHCs/A 2Q2025 Look at Self-Care Futures

Health Populi

Segment focuses that are informed by individuals’ data along with local contexts and regulatory compliance — Deloitte points to AgeTech and FemTech as examples of specific market penetration opportunities. Virtual assistants embedded with GenAI that will support consumers’ journeys, and, 5.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

Other IT innovations are helping enable team-based care and interoperability; see Validic’s work with AWS as one example in this space (in this instance, health IoT and remote patient monitoring), but that’s just one of many applications to seek out to ameliorate this crucial challenge.

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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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Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Still Life in Need: Art, Food Justice, and Health

Health Populi

There is an important distinction between a desert vis-a-vis a swamp when it comes to food and health: a food desert is an area with a high poverty rate where at least one-third of residents live over one mile from the closest grocery store in an urban area or over ten miles from a grocer in a rural area.