Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We are only just past the dawn of the second machine age, where digitization is enabling artificial intelligence. “Our new tools are destroying both trust and truth, creating a hunger for community and authenticity. We crave actual physical connection to neighbours, colleagues, and fellow townspeople, even if digitally facilitated.” . Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote this in a column I read this morning in the Financial Times titled, “Our struggle with technology to protect trust an

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CiscoHealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Today, Shanti Gidwani is Cisco’s national director for healthcare in Canada — but in a former life she was a Registered Nurse. As we approach the biggest Health IT event.

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Health Dialog

MARCH 1, 2018

Encouraging people to make healthy choices is simple. Achieving consistent behavior change that can create long-lasting results is far more challenging. In most cases, people want to live a healthier lifestyle but they are often discouraged by time commitments, lack of knowledge, or simply don’t know where to start. Our recent e-book, “ Turn Patients into Champions ,” outlines how organizations can make wellness participation convenient and drive improved health outcomes for their entire populat

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics. Health is determined by many factors in our own hands, and in forces around us: physical environment, built environment, and public policy.

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CiscoHealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Today, I’m Cisco’s national director for healthcare in Canada — but in a former life I was a Registered Nurse. As we approach the biggest Health IT event of the year, I have a few thoughts on the upcoming conference from a clinician’s perspective. Watch this short video to find out: The conversations I’m hoping to have at HIMSS18. My predictions on the evolution of virtual care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

If we’re playing a game of “majority rules,” then everyone in America would have the right to affordable health care, according to a new poll from The Commonwealth Fund. The report is aptly titled, Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year. The Fund surveyed 2,410 U.S. adults, age 19 to 64, by phone in November and December 2017.

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