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A new digital divide is keeping older adults from accessing digital health

KevinMD

The digital divide used to be about who had internet access and who didn't, with broad implications for every aspect of life — especially health care. But digital health innovation is growing rapidly, with projections showing a $536.6 billion market at the end of 2016. billion market by the end of 2025 compared to the $179.6

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5 Healthcare Industry Issues of 2016: Part 1

BHM Healthcare Solutions

It’s only the beginning of 2016 but here at BHM Healthcare Solutions we have been keeping a close eye on the upcoming healthcare trends for the year. So far we’ve discussed the important trends of Pharmacy and Behavioral Health and how each of those industries is expected to make great strides in the New Year.

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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In an essay I wrote for The Huffington Post back in July 2016, I asserted that broadband connectivity was a social determinant of health.

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The Heart of Health at CES 2020 – Evidence & Innovation Bridge Consumers and Doctors

Health Populi

In Valencell’s recent survey of consumer wearable preferences , 55% of people said they’d like to monitor blood pressure, up from 46% in 2016 as shown in this bar chart from the study. One in two people would like to monitor stress and heart health, and 33% would like to monitor blood glucose levels.

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The Social Determinants of Food for Health, Farms, and the Economy

Health Populi

In 2016, 21.4 on several dimensions: diet and health outcomes, farming as an industry and economic engine, and social determinants, along with seven other categories. million full- and part-time jobs were related to agriculture and food sectors, about 11% of total U.S. employment.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

Source : Bots in healthcare: interview with Thomas Schulz, Organiser of Botscamp [link] ) 2018 Digital Health Prediction 4 : Mobile phone manufacturers will follow Apple's lead on connecting to hospital EHRs using FHIR. He launched and scaled Healthcare.Digital from an idea in 2016 into one of the UK's leading Digital Health blogs.

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Participation starts with understanding goals, values and preferences

Society for Participatory Medicine

For the past 20 years, I’ve been involved in designing diverse health experiences: from diagnostic to adherence tools, from software for cytostatic preparation, to integrated mobile health solutions. From 2016 onward, we started noticing that 50% of patients considered being in the lead of their disease.