Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.

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Mental health Telehealth Public Health Digital Health 335

Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

Digital Health 374

Digital Health mHealth Mental health Telehealth 374

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015.

Connected Health 194

Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine 194

Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

.’… What I think we all need to work on and move toward – and certainly within the ONC, we’re doing our best to do this – is thinking about health equity by design.” ” Dr. Winston Wong and colleagues wrote an essay in JAMA in April 2015 called Achieving Health Equity by Design.

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Health IT Interoperability Healthcare IT Medical Technology 355