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Mercom: Telemedicine investments led 2020's $14.8B in digital health fundraising

Mobi Health News

billion, other areas like data analytics and mobile health apps also earned strong support from investors. While equity investments in telemedicine rose 139% to $4.3

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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

Health Populi

All of these new-new “things” are connected devices, generating personal data that can be scraped for our health profiles. While California will implement a broad consumer-protective privacy law on January 1, 2020, the remainder of the U.S. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style style GDPR?

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? a senior managing director in Accenture’s global Health practice.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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

Health Populi

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES.

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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons sought to take a closer look at the patients who sought surgical consultations in-person and via telemedicine in 2020. And between June 24 and December 2020, Black patients were more likely to use virtual surgical consultations. Black patients represented 8.8%

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

fielded between September and November 2020. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.