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Connected health tools help seniors, but a digital divide persists

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

Importantly, impactfully in terms of health care, three-fourths of folks using medical devices at home said after receiving that alert, their issue was successfully diagnosed once consulting with a doctor. Thus the call for being design-ful along the way of designing, deploying, and supporting connected health devices.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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It Will Be a “Meh” Year for Consumers Buying Connected Health Devices, Based on CTA’s 2023 Forecast

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Wearable tech and remote health monitoring are important tools in evolving toolkits for people managing healthcare at home. The analysis quantifies the opportunity for moving hospital-to-home as valued at over $390 bn in 2030.

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In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves

Health Populi

Driving health tech growth in the forecast are connected health monitoring devices: think blood pressure and blood glucose meters which tie to mobile apps via smartphones. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges. About 1 in 5 U.S.

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

Health Populi

This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis. Beyond this third-party data analysis, the research identified fourth-party sharing in the mobile app ecosystem.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

See that connected sports and fitness equipment grew by 7 percentage points in U.S. Another important data point in this consumer-tech environmental analysis is that more people are open to artificial intelligence baked into the tasks of daily living, shown in the third chart. households owning this form of technology.