Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

Their research shows growing demand for connected solutions for air quality, telehealth, independent living solutions, and other health-adjacent services: Consumer usage of telehealth services increased from 15 percent in Q2 2019 to 64 percent in 2021. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health 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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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

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research.

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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. adults that attended a video meeting did so for medical-related purposes — such as virtual health care, telemedicine, remote monitoring consultation.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Note in the “Appeal of Telehealth Approaches” diagram above that most patients would look to a telehealth program that would allow them to share data form the medical devices in their home, and to share data in mobile health apps from the phone to the health system.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The report also assesses the market outlook for all key IoT-enabled Connected Health apps and services. billion globally by 2028 Chipsets used in conjunction with healthcare in IoT for quantified health will reach $5.9 Wearable Mobile Health Device 3.3 Connected Health Market Segment 3.4.1

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 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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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business. Meanwhile, this week we get more evidence that “connected health” may be winning the terminology battle over mobile, wireless and digital health.

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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. In 2021 overall, over 40% of U.S.

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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

JULY 28, 2020

One of the long-time exhibitors at CES is Withings, who once again showed off a host of new-new things for personal health and wellness at CES 2020. Well-known for its direct-to-consumer connected health devices in the forms of weight scales and fitness watches, Withings announced focused on sleep and heart health in its CES 2020 launches.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

An example of this is the employer-aimed Fitbit program, Fitbit Care , aiming to enable covered employees to change health behaviors and ultimately move the needle on costs and better health. Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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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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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]While thinking about my keynote address at the 2021 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference, I kept coming back to Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel-prize-winning theory (his book is called Thinking Fast and Slow).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity. But only one in four people had used wearable technology for health, and one in five had participated in a live video telemedicine encounter.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As the annual HLTH conference convenes this week in Las Vegas , numerous reports have been published to coincide with the meeting updating various aspects of technology, health care, providers and patients.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The marketing for purchasing digital health technologies is expecting to grow, driven by increased consumer demands for tech-based solutions, improved outcomes enabled through the innovations, and cost savings derived from deploying the technologies.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2024

AARP found that 7 in 10 people ages 50+ are “app-receptive” for health and wellness apps in Unlocking Health and Wellness Apps: Experiences of Adults Age 50-Plus , a summary of research conducted with U.S. consumers 50 and over from AARP.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Today I am keynoting the OSF Digital Health Symposium in Peoria, IL, discussing The State(s) of Digital Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., you’re burned out, tapped out, stressed out, timed out. While the 118 th U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.” ” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. consumers’ eyes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the importance of connectivity, WiFi, broadband, as a social determinant of health and living. 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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A new look into Americans’ views on health privacy from Morning Consult provides a current snapshot on citizens’ concerned embrace of technology — worried pragmatism, let’s call it.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools.

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