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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digital health technology stalled. One of the driving forces was found to be privacy concerns about health data protections. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. Trust is in short supply in the U.S.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

At CES 2023, we will also see alcohol-sensing technologies, automotive safety features, and solutions for people dealing with pain, among other pioneering devices and features embedded in products focused on healthy living and smarter, safer homes and mobility.

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Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Health Populi

The effort is called the Health Equity and Access Leadership (HEAL) Coalition. which quotes Rene Quashie, CTA’s VP of Digital health, saying: “The rise of digital health technology gives us a unique opportunity to help advance health equity, improve access to care, increase health care quality and lower costs.

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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The Digital Health Corner

Public health policy might very well change as a result of such outcome studies. As a disclaimer I am not associated with any technology or organization mentioned in this post.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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