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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Use of health and fitness apps ranked third, with telehealth for mental health services ranking fourth in growing use in the pandemic. Considering timing for re-engaging in health activities, apps, online health services, and connected exercise equipment are already in use by over one-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Concerningly, more people dealing with a chronic condition avoided health care more than people without a chronic disease — 48% versus 31%, meaning that 1 in 2 patients with a diagnosed condition delayed health care during the pandemic in 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the key toxic side effects of the COVID-19 public health crisis has been peoples’ growing sense of isolation and feeling lonely, increasing peoples’ need for mental and behavioral health services.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Accenture also quantified that people are using virtual digital health tools more for both physical and mental well-being. Growing downloads and use of fitness and health apps, more workouts at home via fitness portals and online gym offerings, and mental health programs like Headspace and Calm have grown in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

At CES 2025, I’ll be updating my environmental analysis of consumer-facing health tech in the categories shown in my chart here: tracking food, weight, activity, sleep, safety, kitchens and cooking, heart functions, mental health, gait, home care, cars and mobility, and bathrooms.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

We are seeing the curation and expansion of digital health “formularies” as we understand approved lists of medicines that undergo scrutiny for cost-effectiveness. Business models are emerging to support the adoption of apps, four general commercial models shown in the picture Exhibit 31.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally! As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

I’ll focus on #1, although mindfulness and mental health play into every single one of the eight other trends in the GWI line-up. But back to mental health, because it is indeed the epidemic within the pandemic. Adding color to wellness (on diversity and inclusion). Resetting events with wellness. “Hollywood?”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. Withings’ FDA-cleared smartwatch as a health/care wearable technology. To understand the powerful scenario here, consider these three tools adopted by a person management diabetes.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

For CHCF that year, I wrote Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Being Tracked and Used , I took cues from a 60 Minutes ‘ profile of third-party data brokers and Latanya Sweeney’s groundbreaking research at the Harvard Privacy Lab.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

These include the development of a miniaturized self-shielded CT scanner that achieves >80% reduction in size, weight and power from standard scanners along with software that connects remote medical devices with electronic health records and provides real-time, interactive decision support.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

consumers), followed by exercise, sleep, weight, nutrition, and then new things like medication, mental health, mood, meditation, and blood sugar all attracting at least 1 in 5 new health tracking people. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%. consumers likely to use an FDA-approved health tracking tool.

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Health Populi

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. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Transportation and mobility. Health technology. Health and drivers of wellbeing cross these six trends, and the plethora of services quantified in the on-demand segmentation revealed in the first chart. In 2023, Steve advised us to keep our eyes on six key trends: Enterprise tech. Metaverse and Web 3.0

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

.” The COVID-19 pandemic inspired many consumer behavior changes, one of which was increased use of wearable tech, viewing food-as-medicine for immunity, greater attention to sleep and mental health, among others.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We crave actual physical connection to neighbours, colleagues, and fellow townspeople, even if digitally facilitated.” ” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.

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Chilmark Research

MAY 26, 2022

Everybody’s been trying to figure out how to incorporate mobile health and apps into the daily lives of patients, but also have that work well with the hospital systems. So I don’t know if you know this about me, but I actually did have a mobile health startup before I joined Chilmark Research. [00:05:30]

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults use Facebook, and 3 in 4 of them check in on a daily basis.

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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]According to the Consumer Technology Association, recent data shows that 59% of consumers use remote mental health services, 49% are using telehealth for physical health, and 37% are using health fitness apps – all increases compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

MD, Global Lead, Connected Health, Digital. Intelligent connectivity and mobile technology are key enablers for accessing a range of life-enhancing services such as mobile health – 1 billion subscribers used mobile to access health services in 2017 alone. Ronan Wisdom. Harrison Lung.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In my new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , I track the pandemic’s role in opening patients’ hearts and minds for care at home, using DIY platforms like smartphones, tablets and computers, along with downloading and employing mobile health apps.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

Peloton gathered new health consumer data in February and March 2024 to gain insights into peoples’ perspectives on engaging in fitness activities as the weather warms in springtime – a season Peloton’s research found people see as a good time for a “re-set” when it comes to physical and mental health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The most common conditions employers, plans, and health systems are covering via digital tools are diabetes, among two-thirds of the purchasers; primary care, for 62%; and mental health, preventive care, and cardiovascular conditions for over 50% of purchasers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Jay Sanders, CEO of the Global Telemedicine Group and Founder and President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association; Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Co-Founder of the (then) start-up American Well (now AmWell); and, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Professor at Harvard Medical School and long-time leader of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Connectivity can happen in other ways and bolster wellness: consider art-as-medicine. where this research found Britons’ mental health improved through socializing via creative activities of all sorts. I covered this in depth in this Health Populi post earlier this year. such as in the U.K.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

People define health across many life-flows: physical health, mental health, social health, appearance (“how I look impacts how I feel”) and, to be sure, financial well-being. In tracking this last health factor for U.S.

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