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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

What a difference 90 days makes. I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Compassionate care in a virtual world

Healthy Debate

Compassion, which literally translates to being with the suffering of others, is other-oriented. It appeals to us to act in response to the needs and feelings of others. Digital compassion seeks to use virtual means to be present and to respond to the suffering of others.

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Telehealth and the Digital Healthcare Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Instamed

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Effective Leadership Doesn’t Happen by Chance

The Beryl Institute

Since the early weeks of March, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a leader as our world continues to navigate a global pandemic and now the racial and social unrest in our country. As I anxiously tuned in to the daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings, watched the news, read through various social media threads, links and articles or had conversations with many in our PX community, I found myself asking, “If I were in charge, what would I say?

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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In the Pandemic, We’re All About Food

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed people down Maslow’s hierarchy of needs toward our basic hunting-and-gathering survival mode: shopping for hygiene products for home and personal care, seeking out masks (both functional and fashionable), and building out our pandemic pantries with shelf-stable foods. In addition to the pure physiological need of food for survival, “Consumers have a greater focus on health and immunity.

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First, do no harm: Trust is paramount in healthcare

Healthy Debate

The essence of medicine lies in its ability to heal, rather than harm. Yet, in accessing treatment, many barriers exist. The World Health Organization refers to patient safety as the absence of preventable or unnecessary harm to an individual while seeking care. Globally, 2.6 million deaths occur each year due to adverse events.

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Saving Money as a Financial Vaccine: BlackRock Finds Consumer Savings Drain and Etsy Sellers Not Saving Much

Health Populi

“Americans are feeling incredible financial pressure as a result of the COVID outbreak,” John Thompson, Chief Program Officer with the Financial Health Network. One in three people in the U.S. has skipped or stopped paying a bill, and over half of Americans have used emergency savings, according to a survey from the BlackRock Emergency Savings Initiative (ESI).

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Americans’ Concerns About the US Healthcare System Loom Larger Than Worries About Their Own Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has further opened the kimono of the U.S. healthcare system to Americans: four months into the COVID-19 outbreak, most consumers (62%) of people in the U.S. are more concerned about other people not having access to high quality health care versus themselves. This is a 16 point increase in concern in May 2020 compared with the response to the same question asked in February in a poll conducted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated