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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

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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Opinion: ePublic Health - Where tradition meets innovation

Mobi Health News

Vasileios Nittas, doctoral candidate at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, looks at the impact of social media and digital self-tracking tools on public health.

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Health Populi

The story has lit a lot of lightbulb inspirations for me in thinking through the role housing plays in human health and well-being, and also to inform my upcoming CES 2025 panel on Health at Home: Where Health Meets Smart Living. Blair asks and then explains: “What is trauma-informed design (TID)?

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DEA and HHS extend virtual prescribing for controlled substances through 2025

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The agencies also said they would continue to develop the final rule governing the virtual prescribing of controlled substances in the post-pandemic era to be consistent with public health and safety and to mitigate drug diversion risks.

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China to pilot standards for virtual primary care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Announced in a meeting with general practitioners led by the Chinese Medical Association, the said programme will be developed in partnership with major hospitals and the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. These services were previously only available to big hospitals, which also had to deal with overwhelming admissions.

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How Virtual Care is Morphing into “Just” Healthcare – my post in Medecision Liberation

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required. One are, tele-mental and -behavioral health, is meeting the moment, with virtual therapy meeting up with under-served demand from before the public health crisis.

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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

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.