Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 2, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner There’s no question that the forward march of medical technology has improved personal and public health, creating lasting positive change for humanity. New technology, however, sometimes comes with risks.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

As Weight Watchers prepares to initiate bankruptcy proceedings, I file the news event under “thinking the unthinkable.” ” “Thinking about the unthinkable” is what Herman Kahn, a father of scenario planning, asked us to do when he pioneered the process.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

health consumers would eventually morph into health citizens, owning and not just renting our health. That book ended with a chapter asking whether U.S. cast to communicate their collective political will.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

The four-year grant will support research which is believed to have applications in a broad range of medical devices, including continuous glucose monitors, smart electronic skin patches, and activity monitors. THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the fastest-growing areas of digital health that grew in the COVID-19 pandemic was use of smartphones for health and fitness. consumers’ smartphone use for managing health grew by 50% during the public health crisis. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

“Tom Lawry reminds us that the health care industry can shift from glacial to warp speed when it needs to. Given the right tools, we can evolve from health systems to systems of health, baked with Responsible Intelligence to do good while embedded with respect, inclusion, and transparency.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Telehealth Growth Beyond Permanent Telebehavioral Health Reimbursement. Telehealth policies were first introduced during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) to allow practitioners reimbursement, interjurisdictional and other regulatory discretion got offering telehealth services.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2023

We know that the industry segments that make health in our homes and communities involve organizations well beyond medical care SIC codes — in addition to the legacy system players of hospitals and physician practices, health insurance plans, pharma, life science, and medical technology companies, we must add into our sandbox players food and (..)

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But I’m most looking forward to seeing the 30-second spot from Hologic , the medical technology company. This year, Ad Age provides us with an early inventory of some of the high-expectation commercials, including the usual suspects like Budweiser, Google, TurboTax, and Avocados from Mexico.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Our homes have the potential to be our health-hubs, supporting self-care and remote health care to our clinicians and health coaches, with our neighbors and communities bolstering overall public health. “Ultimately, a healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 14, 2023

Kirsten Carroll appointed CEO; Stefan Heuser named CFO and Clayton Duncan named SVP, Commercialization Kandu Health achieves successful enrollment of the first 50 stroke survivors in its stroke recovery program CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS Kandu Health is based in Campbell, CA. –(BUSINESS WIRE)– Imperative Care , Inc.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We are all familiar with deplorable abuses of human subjects in research, such as medical interventions without informed consent, and experimentation in concentration camps during World War II. As a result we developed the four principles of health care ethics to support ourselves as we provide patient care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

In revisiting the report “six months later” in the current environment of public health and health care in the U.S. and more global political-economic currents, that Deloitte’s attention to trust, writ large, and 2030’s commitment to ESG are deeply woven into the future retail health narrative.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 2, 2020

Throughout history, medical technology has largely evolved according to demand. Several major health crises forced the industry to reconsider the status quo, leading to sweeping changes throughout the United States’ health system. Ultimately, these efforts helped improve the health of the nation.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2024

In addition, the politicization of health, dispersion of authority (with friends and family at least as trusted as scientists to “tell the truth on health”), and self-guided health (not necessarily in partnership with a licensed clinicians) can all be risks for health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Heart health at home.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

” This was one pillar for the public health prescription we were given to help mitigate the spread of a very tricky, contagious virus. Their report envisions a new normal for physical spaces, public transit and commuting, airports, urban infrastructure redevelopment, remote work, and public health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. In this growing era of healthcare collaboration, Omron worked with AliveCor on the BP/EKG technology; here’s more detail on AliveCor’s website here.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). Beyond alcohol, the company is working on additional DTx categories including insomnia and depression, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and PTSD, among other conditions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Underpinning that behavior has been consumers’ personal digital transformations through the pandemic, one of those silver linings we can look to as a positive outcome for many people now empowered through consumer technology for many life-flows.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2024

Hank Kucheman, who previously served as the CEO of Boston Scientific and is the non-executive chairman and long-time member of the Element Science Board of Directors, said, “Element Science is on the leading edge of leveraging advancements in machine learning, wearable technologies, and miniaturization to revolutionize the way patients receive care.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Inna: Our aim is to improve patient and clinician access to modern, innovative and reliable medical technology. Inna: We align with the World Health Organisation in that AMR is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. We ensure that everything we do has the patient at the heart.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Telemedicine will move into the public health space as well, with countries like Singapore is testing the platforms in a regulatory sandbox. “Telemedicine in emerging markets will become more mainstream and will aim to become a managed services provider [rather] than being just a telemedicine platform,” he says.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

That’s what government regulation and intervention are for, to make more fair and effective the lack of a real health care market. In the immediate term, looking from “now” to one and three years from now, we can expect the private sector to take on more public health roles.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Despite breathtaking medical advancements since President Harry Truman declared war on heart disease 75 years ago, researchers have observed a disturbing trend that started in 2009: America’s death rate from heart-related conditions is climbing again,” the detailed essay explains.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

Ten years ago, ECRI named the top 10 health technology hazards for 2013: they were alarm hazards, medication administrative errors using infusion pumps, unnecessary exposure and radiation burns from diagnostic radiology procedures, patient/data mismatches in EHRs and other HIT systems, interoperability failures with medical devices and health IT systems, (..)

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute care settings, and patient engagement and health literacy — all of which play into this year’s #1 issue, racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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