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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Adoption of digital tools has grown across physicians of all ages, specialty, and gender across all technologies studied.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Beyond health, the report also addresses a landscape of sectors, including retail and eCommerce, fitness, commuting (for work), and travel, along with various lifestyle areas. After the pandemic, one in two consumers look forward to using telehealth for both mental health and physical health more often.

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APRIL 6, 2022

This capability is attracting pharmaceutical and life science companies, health care providers and research organizations to take a closer look at Seqster’s offering.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

More younger doctors recognize the “immediate value” of telehealth, Philips found: 61% of younger doctors said telehealth was among the top digital health technologies that would have most improved their experience during the pandemic. Philips presented more granular data for each of the five countries studied.

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JULY 22, 2021

Note that telehealth was not nearly the only digital health tool employed by consumers and clinicians during the pandemic; clinical trials leveraged connected devices, care team emails proliferated (part of telehealth, broadly defined), and disease management apps supported patients managing chronic conditions from home.

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JULY 25, 2022

From connectivity to home care, entertainment and food — and for the first time, two pharma companies named in a study largely focused on consumer goods and services — people adapted their homes for health and wellness across all domains: physical, mental and emotional, financial, and social.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

That’s the top-line finding in the 2024 State of Digital Health Purchasing from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI). PHTI surveyed 322 digital health decision makers working in employers, health plans, and health systems, fielding the study in July and August 2024.

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MAY 25, 2021

To help us think this through, just in time, the AMA has published a report on the Return on Health: Moving Beyond Dollars and Cents in Realizing the Value of Virtual Care. Those virtual care stories were based on interviews with a range of providers and industry representatives, shown in the graphic labelled “collaborators.”

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Start with tracking: nearly 80% of people tracked at least one health metric in 2019, but nearly one-half of that tracking was done in an analog, not digital way. What do health trackers track, then? consumers would be most willing to share their health data. ” How not-so-far we have come, right? with Apple.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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JULY 20, 2018

As the Deloitte consumer-vs-physician study shows, there’s a gap between patients who are taking on more DIY healthcare tasks. Clinicians continue to have real concerns about clinical validity (per the AMA’s Dr.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The report points out that the health care industry hasn’t felt the level of disruption that other sectors, shown at the bottom right corner of the company’s “Where Are You Now?” The diagram illustrates Accenture’s “Disruptability Index” study published last year.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

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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JANUARY 20, 2019

Have you heard the story about a boy born in Yorkshire, England, who studies art in Birmingham, finds his way to Finland to work with design maestro Alvar Aalto, and then crafts a printer that Steve Jobs loved? I have, at CES 2019, when I sat down with Sean Carney, Chief Designer at Philips.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

Taken together, these can be a toxic cocktail when not aligned for positive health behavior. Stress in America today crosses socioeconomic strata when it comes to health care costs several research studies have found that I cited, including surveys from the American Psychological Association and the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Demand for voice tech among health consumers outstrips supply, the Voicebot research revealed, based on t he company’s read of their data. And do add this into your growing understanding of consumers’ growing embrace of retail health and our homes as personal and family health hubs.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

And as the RWJF/NPR/Harvard Chan study shows, these social determinants risks travel in groups and double-down on those health risks for people who rent, people of color, those without access to healthy food, and folks who earn lower incomes.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

My friend and colleague Susannah Fox coined the term peer-to-peer healthcare as she observed the phenomenon while leading studies at the Pew Research Group into how patients were using the Internet for self-care. Getting support.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Compared with the ten other countries studied, the Commonwealth Fund placed the U.S. Otherwise, America ranked dead last in the four other categories, placing it in overall last place for health system performance among other wealthy countries. health care system, “was designed to work this way.” ” True, U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Heart health at home. The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

Interest in emerging technologies like AI and robotics. The first chart illustrates patients’ use of tech and tools for health and fitness by country studied. Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Richard Edelman convened a virtual meeting launch for the Trust Barometer’s tech perspectives yesterday, looking broadly at the global study findings. Note that social media ranks very much last here…although social media is now seen as embedded into consumers’ definition of “technology.”

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

But as payors, health consumers face challenges in getting care, so great expectations are met with frustration and eroding trust with the system, according to the latest Connected Healthcare Consumer report from Salesforce published today as the company announced expansion of their health cloud capabilities.

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JUNE 5, 2024

The most impactful touchpoint for trust between a health care provider and a patient is her satisfaction with the services they receive – delivering a 4.6 times multiple on likelihood to trust that provider, Accenture reported in a recent study on patient loyalty in health care.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Do mine the full global study linked above, as I segue into some of the U.S. In America, trust truly crashed by December 2020, falling to a low Richard Edelman said he had never seen in the 21 years conducting this study. specific findings here. This chart illustrates that while trust precipitously fell in the U.S.

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