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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. Across all three medical conditions studied, videoconferencing, in particular, garnered relatively rave reviews among patients using the platform for the first time. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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

Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

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

JANUARY 15, 2020

Stanford Medicine interviewed 523 physicians and 210 medical students and residents in September and October 2019 to assess clinicians’ perspectives on digital health topics for this study. Similarly, one-half of consumers expressed demand for digital health technologies in a study from GlobalWebIndex last year.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The drawing illustrates the many life-flows that consumers adopted as a result of the Great Lockdown, tele-working from home, going to school from home, streaming entertainment instead of heading to the brick-and-mortar cinema, shopping, and indeed, accessing health care.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The bar chart from Kaiser Family Foundation’s look into mental health in 2020, illustrates that pandemic mental health reality, that over one-half of people between 18 and 24 reported symptoms of anxiety or depression during the public health crisis, with the incidence of feeling anxious or depressed declining with age.

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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

Similarly, 42% of global health citizens were very or extremely comfortable with consulting a therapist online or via a mobile health app for mental health counsel and support.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. This bolsters Accenture’s finding discussed above about the use of IM/AI in health care. Three-fourths of U.S.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Health Populi

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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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Think of that as you study the Shutterstock images of what grandma presumably looks like. . Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Just saying.

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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Across the four types of tech studied, it’s smartphones that top the list of penetration in rural areas (at 71%), closely followed by computers (desktop or laptop, with 69% adoption), broadband (at 63%) and tablets in fourth/last place (49%).

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Consumers Focus on Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Self-Care a New Normal?

Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

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. Accenture’s study also asked whether we will have a “home-working revolution?”

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3 Real-World Reasons the Scripps Study Failed

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Figure from Chilmark’s Connected Health Report). The results of a six-month study on the impact of connected devices on chronically ill patients are in – and they’re not good. We looked at the Scripps study in more detail and uncovered a few specific areas where the study design came up short.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

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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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

If user experience is positive, then consumers will sustain their use of the innovation over time — a barrier which health-focused wearables, in particularly, have encountered. In this study, one in four wearable tech owners said they no longer used the device. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

My Fitness Pal is the most popular food tracking app on the market: I’ve been told by the founders that it could be the largest longitudinal health record of consumers, food, and weight loss in a single database.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Study the exhibit halls online if you can’t be there in person. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology , Family caregivers. all ahead in the remains of the year of 2018. Read more here.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

" An mHealth Intelligence article notes, "Real-time telehealth provides timely care, especially in emergencies or urgent situations, and maintains the concept of the doctor-patient relationship by enabling a face-to-face analysis and treatment. ."

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Zoom Became a Household Name in the Pandemic. It’s Working to Do the Same in Healthcare – At #HIMSS21

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

As the first chart from the study illustrates, most people in America expect hybrid lifestyles, from fitness and retail to entertainment and education. health citizens want their health care to be hybrid, too. In March 2021, Zoom conducted research into the question, “how virtual do we want our future to be?”

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The CCHP website also houses a vast resource center with research catalogs compiling peer-reviewed studies in several telemedicine domains.

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From Boost Mobile and Swype to Xealth: One Entrepreneur’s Journey into Healthtech

Chilmark Research

MAY 26, 2022

I have followed this area closely for years – my first real startup attempt was a prescribable app platform in the early days of mHealth ( RxApps ) – but to date, none have actually found a successful business model. I wanted to make a change in health care, improve the health, welfare and society of the US population.

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Finally, Some Concrete Use Cases for Telehealth

Chilmark Research

JULY 11, 2016

As it turns out, the report in question is a technical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that examined 58 research studies to find evidence of telehealth’s effectiveness across both clinical areas and technical functionality.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

But as we are learning through the first two stages of this program as well as the early headaches of ACA rollout, reams of sophisticated studies floated down from the ivory tower do not effective policies make. Evidence for the positive impact of this data on quality, satisfaction, and in some cases cost is thin but growing.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

User names were identified by one in five apps studied. The prevalence of Google in this ecosystem is a key finding from the study. The authors call out that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, owns the third parties Crashlytics, Google Analytics, and AdMob By Google which were all in the ecosystem studied.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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

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

Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

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

Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Consumers Focus on Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Self-Care a New Normal?

3 Real-World Reasons the Scripps Study Failed

The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

From Boost Mobile and Swype to Xealth: One Entrepreneur’s Journey into Healthtech

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