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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Compare that to 36% of young people who did not have COVID-19 touch their family.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

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.

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. Diving further into U.S.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

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. Expect MDLive’s IPO in 2021.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2021

So it makes sense that the apparel category whose brand equity grew most between 2020 and 2021 was footwear, announced in the Brand Finance Apparel 50. In the COVID-19 pandemic era of retail and consumers, it’s useful to consider Brand Finance’s findings in terms of where people found value in the face of the public health crisis.

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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

GWI identified nine major wellness trends for 2021: Hollywood and the entertainment industries jumping into wellness. The future of immune health. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. ” The wellness category — and particularly, the ability to scale mental health services via digital technology — is promising.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

For growth, Beazley learned that 90% of business were planning for growth in 2021, 62% were raising capital, and one-third were innovating new products and services. The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Health systems can take a number of steps toward ensuring the benefits of virtual care are fully realized, they said, including pushing for expanded broadband access and reimbursement incentives. A RAND study from March 2021 found that overall, pandemic-era telehealth grew most in wealthy and metro areas. THE LARGER TREND.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. consumers’ smartphone use for managing health grew by 50% during the public health crisis. Both you were, and your home was as well.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That ethos now pertains to post-pandemic health consumers’ growing use of wearable tech, remote health monitoring, and mobile apps for self-care and chronic condition management. adults in late September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

Their research shows growing demand for connected solutions for air quality, telehealth, independent living solutions, and other health-adjacent services: Consumer usage of telehealth services increased from 15 percent in Q2 2019 to 64 percent in 2021. 55 percent of U.S. CES recognized OMRON’s U.S.

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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The power of Digital Health in dietary education for chronic conditions

Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this context, digital health emerges as a catalyst for revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services.

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2025 UK HealthTech Predictions – Big 5 for 2025

Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Apps: Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are becoming increasingly prevalent, offering a wide range of functionalities such as symptom tracking, medication reminders, mental health support, and remote consultations. Public Health Initiatives: Data plays a crucial role in public health initiatives.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The conference will highlight the potential of delivering high quality and easily accessible, personalised healthcare in North East London, including clinical and public health services and the NHS 10-year plan. The Government’s commitment to expand ICP and PHBs to between 50,000 and 100,000 people by March 2021.

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Digital Health Academic Journals

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Last Update: January 27, 2023 Number Journal Name Impact Factor (2021) Publishing Options Publisher Country G1 The Lancet Digital Health 36.615 OA Elsevier Ltd. OA JMIR Publications Inc. UK POPULATION HEALTH P1 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 14.56 OA JMIR Publications Inc.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Number Journal Name Impact Factor (2021) Publishing Options Publisher Country G1 The Lancet Digital Health 36.615 OA Elsevier Ltd. OA JMIR Publications Inc. UK POPULATION HEALTH P1 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 14.56 OA JMIR Publications Inc. The list is best viewed on a computer!

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). We segue then to a view from Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health Tracking Poll focusing on the cost of health care and prescription drugs.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020

The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

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