ChatGPT's language bias poses risk in public health response: study
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Research from Asia has urged vigilance with the use of the chatbot while calling for AI language inclusivity.
VR is just as effective for naloxone training as in-person instruction, study says
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The results of this study offer public health workers a scalable, low-cost and effective way to educate the community on how to treat someone experiencing an opioid overdose.
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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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TikTok’s Impact on Youth Mental Health and Public Health Under-Researched, Study Finds
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 21, 2023
TikTok , the rapidly growing social media platform popular among children and young people worldwide, remains surprisingly under-researched in psychology and psychiatry, according to a two-part study. Most of these studies were from the USA and used content analysis as their research method.
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House extends virtual care flexibilities beyond public health emergency
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 10, 2022
Senate, several COVID-19-era telehealth policies will remain in place for about five months after the public health emergency ends. In-person requirements for mental health , with providers not mandated to see their patients in person before conducting a mental telehealth visit. Audio-only care. Frank Pallone Jr., and Anna G.
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Study of 36.5M people reveals huge jump in pandemic telehealth use
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 25, 2021
A cohort study of more than 36 million people in the United States found a dramatic increase in telehealth use during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. By undertaking this study, we sought to gain an understanding of the patterns of virtual care during this initial phase of the COVID-19 era," wrote the researchers.
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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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Akili to study EndeavorRx as a COVID-19 brain fog treatment
Mobi Health News
APRIL 9, 2021
The digital therapeutic is designed to treat children ages 8 to 12 with ADHD, but the two studies announced this week will focus on an adult population. .
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China to pilot standards for virtual primary care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
In China, family doctor contract services come in three packages: a basic, free public health service package, a basic package with options for personalisation, and an integrated medical treatment and nursing care package. In particular, people are still hesitant to sign up for the service.
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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2025
The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. ” One in 4 consumers have been alerted by a personal medical device regarding a pending health issue.
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Pandemic era telehealth grew most in wealthy and metro areas, RAND study shows
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 16, 2021
That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.
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3 in 4 U.S. Patients Say the Healthcare System is Broken — But Technology Can Help
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
healthcare system is broken and there is a strong sense of distrust,” Lavidge asserts right at the top of the study’s press release. The Lavidge consumer study bolsters this mandate, further inspiring us to build trust in one another, with science, and with our health care providers. The erosion in trust among 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
study, Edelman interviewed 1,500 U.S. 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. For the U.S.
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$2M e-ICU project to be launched in regional Korea
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 22, 2024
Over the past decade, ICU bed rates per 100,000 adults in South Korea increased, according to a local study. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Clinical decision support Coordinated care Health Information Exchange Digital Health Patient Access Care Quality Care Data and Information Technology
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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
Gallup and West Health presented their study in a webinar earlier this week; in today’s post, I feature a few key data points that particularly resonate as I celebrate/appreciate yesterday’s U.S. Texas) combined with a new study published in JAMA Network Open, discussed below the digital fold in the Hot Points. .
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Masks Work. A Picture From Kansas That Tells A Story in Two Words.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 28, 2020
The rationale: That was two days before Independence Day, the holiday weekend when she and state public health officials anticipated health citizens would abandon their personal efforts to physically distance and cover faces to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus. This was the message directly communicated to U.S.
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A National Study Utilizes Routine Health Data to Investigate Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A nationwide, agnostic retrospective cohort study has made use of routine health-care data to proactively search for unknown transfusion-transmitted diseases. Methodology and Findings The study, conducted in Sweden, developed a systematic algorithm for a population-wide search for transfusion-transmitted diseases.
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Audio-only telehealth benefits patients in need, study finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 2, 2022
A recent University of California study of telehealth implementation at community health centers found that although phone visits were beneficial to historically marginalized patients, continued virtual care use depends on increased technological resources. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE LARGER TREND.
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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Even with that moderate increase, this post’s title reports the study headline that workers’ health insurance premiums continue to grow faster than wages: cumulatively since 2010, family premiums grew by 55% and deductibles, 11%. Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%.
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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. Across all three medical conditions studied, videoconferencing, in particular, garnered relatively rave reviews among patients using the platform for the first time. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.
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Study of 40.7M adults finds telehealth comparable for chronic conditions
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 29, 2022
A study of 40.7 "Telehealth accounted for a large share of ambulatory encounters at the peak of the pandemic and remained prevalent after infection rates subsided," said researchers in the study, which was funded in part by the American Telemedicine Association. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.
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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns
Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.
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Depression and Anxiety are Toxic Side Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
For this study, APA polled 1,787 licensed psychologists (both members and non-members in the Association) in the U.S. This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. Stress in America series here in Health Populi earlier this year. between late August and early October 2020.
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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.
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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2021
That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).
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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare
Health Populi
JULY 23, 2020
Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Familiarity with virtual care breeds demand, based on the Parks Associates study.
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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP
Health Populi
MAY 10, 2022
The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Accelerated Our Demand for Wellness – Learning from Ogilvy
Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2020
The first chart illustrates that most people see each of the seven industries studied as wellness channels, from the more obvious health-oriented categories like skincare and food to hospitality (hotels and airlines), financial services, and automotive (which I’ve covered as far back as 2007 here on Health Populi).
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The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021
Health Populi
JUNE 2, 2021
Coupled with these findings from Patientco ( which recently won the “Best in KLAS” award for patient financial engagement platforms), an article in JAMA Network Open published this week (dated June 1, 2021) looks at access to care, cost of care, and satisfaction with care among adults with private and public health insurance in the U.S.
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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2021
For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Compare that to 36% of young people who did not have COVID-19 touch their family.
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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture
Health Populi
AUGUST 18, 2020
While this study targets the consumer goods industry, there is much for health care to glean from the findings. What we can learn from Accenture’s digital health tech vision for 2020 merges well with the consumer behavior data, knowing that the home has become the hub for most people, a next-normal for COVID-19 era consumers.
NHS trials genomic testing to predict risk of heart disease
Mobi Health News
MARCH 23, 2021
The pilot study in north-east England will pioneer a personalised medicine approach.
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Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Lululemon has published the 2024 Global Well-Being Report , a study into peoples’ perspectives on their personal health from the company best known for athleisure wear and self-care. The post Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
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Vitamin Sleep – Sleep-Tech Innovations from #CES2025
Health Populi
JANUARY 7, 2025
Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit health?
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Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things
Health Populi
AUGUST 10, 2022
One of the largest meta-analyses mashing up research evidence on the impact of climate change on human health was featured in the journal Nature Climate Change this week. Lorraine could replace the word “war” with “climate change” and be clinically sound in the eyes of the team that collaborated on the study.
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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2018
The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Decades of research have shown that nutrition, economic stability, and a clean and safe physical environment make individual and public health.
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Supporting emergency medical response with mobile technology
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 2, 2025
Read the full case study here. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Population and Public Health Interoperability Care Data and Information Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 8, 2020
Among the other recommendations was a call to make electronic medical records must be made interoperable, more accessible, and searchable by public health personnel to aid in state and federal situational awareness and emergency management. " Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin.
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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S. Insights from this study have informed the launch of the Lively Flip , which Best Buy Health introduces today.
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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. nations in the study. health citizens. as in the non-U.S.
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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.
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7 Mental Health Resources For Students To Help During COVID-19
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 14, 2021
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. A study by the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) found that 27.8% Mental health […]. The article 7 Mental Health Resources For Students To Help During COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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The Higher Cost of Cookouts – Happy, Healthy Independence Day 2022
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2022
in this study), and a 16-ounce bag of potato chips down 4% to $4.71. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While grilling will be the most prevalent activity for Independence Day, 64% of Americans plan to spend less than $100 on the day, a study from Numerator found. and in every nation, abundant health across all dimensions! .
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