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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

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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Branding Dreams

Bill of Health

For its 2018 Halloween promotion, Burger King introduced a hamburger called the “Nightmare King.” When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Jane Sarashon

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. It will be about health.”

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

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. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

Health Populi

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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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

Health Populi

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. s, birthday. .