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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones.

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

Health Populi

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. Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

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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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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

Health Populi

Furthermore, more LGBTQ+ younger people sought health information online compared with others, as well as used mobile health apps, connected with providers online, and sought to connect with other people “like me” online. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.

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The Growth of Emerging Consumer Electronics Categories Adds to Digital Health Platforms

Health Populi

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).