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These life flows included shopping from home, working from home, exercising at home, and other pandemic-era behaviors that are persisting five years later since the pandemic was pronounced as the publichealth emergency. In fact, Americans shifted many activities to-home as shown in the lower-right quadrant.
During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. By 2022, CTA projects that connectedexercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5
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People w3re already adopting digital tech for health before the pandemic began; Apple and Xiaomi dominated market shares for wearable tech globally, and mobile apps for health, wellness, and fitness approached 40,000 available in app stores. Our homes emerged as our health hubs in the #StayHome and quarantine times.
But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connectinghealth 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. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.
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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 publichealth crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.
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Dean Ornish’s research has proven patients diagnosed with heart disease can reverse cardiac damage through adopting several behavior changes: exercise, a low-fat diet, On smoking cessation, stress management, and group support. Exercising regularly. Eating a healthy diet. Quitting smoking.
You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment.
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” That jump was accelerated during the pandemic, as people staying home has led to new work- and life-flows for jobs, exercise, cooking, learning, and staying even-keeled in the face of isolation, economic challenges, and political/social stress.
As the pandemic exacerbated many risks of social determinants of health like food security and the ability to earn a wage in hospitality or caregiving jobs, so, too, did the publichealth crisis shine a light on a newer determinant of health: connectivity as a basic human need.
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