Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Nearly all patients have felt their symptoms had been ignored or dismissed by a doctor at some point, ECRI asserts. When this happens to a patient or their caregiver, it feels like “medical gaslighting,” ECRI explains. Consider the growth of TikTok in medical information, for example. With 3 in 5 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2023

While most of the general chatter around the technology can, most charitably, be dismissed as ‘uninformed’, there are already some encouraging signs of its potential to change the world of public healthcare provision, substantially for the better. The growing use of AI in healthcare also raises important ethical considerations.

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Etactics

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Advanced Medical Technology Association reports that the United States is the largest medical device market in the world, attributing to over 40% of the MedTech market. Medical technology, or MedTech, proves to change and improve rapidly year by year. Table of Contents What is Medical Technology?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

Diagnostics, represented by Last Gadget Standing winner for CES 2020, MedWand — “a doctor’s visit at a patient’s fingertips” — bolstering patient engagement in-between physician visits.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2021

COVID-19 has no doubt been catastrophic, but let it also be the wake-up call we need to improve experiences for both patients and healthcare providers alike. So far, healthcare organizations and facilities have had to work quickly to deliver care on a functional level. Healthcare innovation must serve inclusion.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

However, younger doctors’ experience with telehealth has led to them being more bullish on the value of the modality than older physicians, Philips learned. Philips conducted 500 interviews with doctors in China, France, Germany, Singapore, and the United States to assess their views on technology and health care in the pandemic.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has increased access to healthcare services for previously uninsured populations. The coronavirus pandemic has significantly increased the usage of “smart” wearable medical technologies , like smartwatches and fitness trackers. Know Your Buyer Persona.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

Secure US to Secure ME calls out the risk of cybersecurity across healthcare organizations’ entire ecosystem of inter-connected payers, providers, technology vendors and, to be sure, patients whose data are a personal precious asset at increasing risk of hacking.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

These issues all relate to a lack of adaptability in a medical practice. If these concerns sound too familiar to your healthcare practice, its vital to identify the underlying cause before it shuts your business down. Many healthcare practices fall behind when it comes to adapting to medical technology.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

What You Should Know: – ECRI , an independent healthcare safety organization, has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list for 2024 , highlighting critical safety concerns for healthcare providers and the medical device industry. packaging) included with each product.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Chris Luoma, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, GHX Advancements in medical technology have increased the demand for surgical implants. Although this growth is exciting, it also highlights the need for healthcare to transform digitally. The implantable device market is projected to reach $166.3 billion by 2032.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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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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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

The most compelling argument against privatizing the NHS has always been that the provision of healthcare should not be left to the vagaries of market forces. About Ivor Campbell Ivor Campbell is the CEO of Snedden Campbell , a UK-based recruitment agency for the global medical technology industry.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? One-fourth of doctors plan to implement this capability in the next two years. from Deloitte.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

Best Buy Health (BBH) describes itself in terms of, “creating a future where delivery of healthcare in the home is tech-enabled and human0centered, by developing solutions for consumers to get well and stay well on their own, or with the support of trusted healthcare providers.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

CTA’s research shows that the public health crisis has expanded consumers’ healthcare behaviors at home via telehealth for mind, body and spirit, and for adapting the home as the new gym space for fitness. Finally, one-third of consumers project using online health and fitness services more frequently after the pandemic.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 18, 2023

Josh Makower, a physician-inventor, entrepreneur, and professor at Stanford University, testifies about the challenges faced by medical technology innovators in accessing timely reimbursement for their breakthrough medical technologies. Kesselheim MD, JD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. Once cleared (planned for Fall 2018), the clinical quality of the data output promises to be a huge advance for consumer-marketed wearable technology that doctors can trust.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2021

What You Should Know: – Zimmer Biomet Holdings, a global medical technology leader, and Canary Medical , a medical data company, announced U.S. range of motion, step count, walking speed) is then aggregated and analyzed, to provide both patients and doctors a more complete snapshot of recovery progress.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Googling the words “disruption” and “healthcare” today yielded 33.8 “Disruption” as a noun and an elephant in our room has been with us in healthcare since the September/October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review. This emerged out of Christensen’s 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 18, 2024

What You Should Know: – Salesforce announced the general availability of Life Sciences Cloud , a platform for pharmaceutical ( pharma ) and medical technology ( medtech ) organizations to help personalize patient and healthcare professional (HCP) engagement and streamline clinical operations with data, automation, and trusted AI.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

So you have a ton of patients in a healthcare system getting tests that may not be helpful in their diagnosis for creating a treatment plan. Costs to the healthcare system, accuracy of the diagnosis, like you mentioned with your family member, and ultimately the outcomes. heart disease is the number one killer of all Americans.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2024

Trust in media for “my” healthcare also plummeted in the U.S. in the past year, falling by 21 percentage points to only 35% of American health citizens trusting the media to report accurate information about health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free. A couple of intriguing examples: Ali Health, part of Alibaba (the e-commerce giant), launched a free online clinic in locked-down Hubei (whose capital is Wuhan) where in five days, 100,000 patients received remote consultations.

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Etactics

OCTOBER 25, 2024

To screen for breast cancer, doctors use an X-ray imaging method called a mammography. Medicaid, Medicare, and all other healthcare programs accept and function under this universally accepted medical vocabulary. This all depends on what service the healthcare professional provides.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. Adverse drug events accounted for 39.0%

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This post is my synthesis of the summary I delivered live at the end of the conference, which one of the attendees described as “poetry slam-meets-healthcare.”. As many as 1 in 2 Americans has avoided some aspect of health care due to cost in the past year, such as postponing a needed visit to a doctor or not filling a prescription drug.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

More than a decade ago, Joe made it his life’s purpose to eliminate preventable medical harm and create safer healthcare systems around the world. Joe will be the keynote speaker at our 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit on June 1–2 in Newport Beach. Yours, Michael A.E.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Almost overnight, school lessons and doctors’ appointments were online. “Historically, people have often been quick to adopt new digital technology and slower to adapt to what it can help them achieve,” Fjord noted.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

Medical technology, with prolific sensors and devices that connect consumers, patients, and caregivers across the continuum from healthy to high-risk acute patients (that’s the Hospital@Home segment of people). Digital transformation, built on “radically interoperable” data on open, secure platforms.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 27, 2023

We in the medical profession must be sure that this organ donor does not sustain any preventable harm by ensuring that all healthcare safety measures are adhered to. This would seem obvious and something rapidly endorsed by healthcare professionals. Medical technology companies are developing new devices to assist us.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

Don Berwick—one of the original giants in patient safety and a founding member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement—gave an inspiring keynote address. First, he recognized the superb healthcare force we have in the US, how dedicated they are, and how frustrated they are by the avoidable harm to patients that is occurring.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

On average, U.S. households with broadband have at least one connected health device, which could be a smart watch, a fitness tracker (such as Fitbit), connected exercise equipment (like a Peloton and the NordicTrack Vault), a heart rate monitor (like OMRON’s HeartGuide), a weight scale (like Withings smart scales), or a sleep monitor (e.g.,

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 28, 2023

In healthcare, it is an opportunity to look at the state of disparities that exist by race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability status, highlighting populations that are disproportionately impacted by inequities. We have much to do to make healthcare safe! In the United States, about 6.9

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Managing diabetes as early as possible is key, which is why this year’s theme for National Diabetes Month is building a healthcare team. The patient is the most important member of their own healthcare team, as diabetes treatment involves a lot of self-care and preventative lifestyle choices.

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