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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

As a WEGO Health poll of patient activists found in April 2019, patients continue to share this very intimate data, even in the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story, growing cybersecurity breaches of medical data, and a challenging environment for trust and “fake news” for health care. mobile consumers.

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How Consumers’ Belt-Tightening Could Impact Health/Care – Insights from Deloitte’s Retail Team

Health Populi

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. consumer spending for education, food and health care substantially grew, crowding out spending for other categories like transportation and housing. Cash-constraints vis-à-vis health care spending will also impact peoples’ political views on healthcare reform in the U.S.

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What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem

Jane Sarashon

It’s more of an “and” than an “or,” we know now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as financial health connects with mental health, physical health, and social/civic health. Yes, to health care access (especially primary care). Yes, to healthy food.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. million people in 2017. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Vincent reopens Westside Crossing Walk-In Care Indiana’s 2017 abortion law violates free speech, federal judge rules Ind. Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass.

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The Importance of Broadband and Net Neutrality for Health, to the Last Person and the Last Mile

Health Populi

The issue of net neutrality and Everyday Peoples’ access to connectivity and broadband lies at the heart of this intersection. This is so important for health given that most of us in the field agree that our “ZIP code is more important than our genetic code.”.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

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