Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation are known for our recognition of loved ones who have lost someone from preventable harm in healthcare. However, we also very strongly support the heroic efforts of our healthcare workers as we seek solutions to the system faults that lead to preventable errors occurring.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Beta Healthcare Symposium Joe Kiani also recently gave a keynote at Beta Healthcare Group’s 2023 Annual Member Symposium focused on “Strategies for Improving Patient & Employee Safety,” held in Dana Point, California. Through this year’s slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!”

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies. 55% would value live chat and instant message for medical tasks. Some of the key U.S.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

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. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

Again, you need only scroll through some of the local press articles to discover that waits are longer, levels of basic care poorer and patient experiences grimmer than ever before. Figures published by NHS Wales last week revealed more than 60,000 patients are waiting more than two years for treatment.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic. Home as hospital.

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