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This will be my 15th year participating in CES, and marking over a decade as a member of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Note that smartwatches have also added sensors and apps related to cardiovascular health, so well add these into the heart-mix. And you’ll hear more updates from me live from #CES2025.
But as I write in HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , it will take health-baked public policies and stronger privacy rights in America to bolster better personal and community health and fiscal outcomes.
revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality for COVID-19. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. Lack of inclusive design. the authors call out.
In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National HealthPolicy Conference in Washington, DC.
Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.
The first diagram shows my evolving view on what I seek out at CES each year, from the traditional tracking of weight and activity to the mainstreaming of heart function and sleep, with the addition of the connected car for health and safety, and the smart kitchen and bathroom in the mix of health-at-home.
The forces that have shaped peoples’ dependency on and appreciation for tech-in-life were complex and converging; so area the economic forces that have begun to impact the demand side of consumer technology purchases and use.
Taken together, these accelerators disrupt the traditional physical hospital’s role in at least six ways: via, Care delivery transformation, defined holistically including well-being across physical, mental, social, emotional, financial, and spiritual health.
Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digitalhealth services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure. And then we’ve been working directly with our members to showcase the incredible work they are doing in the face of this health emergency.
But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digitalhealth 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.
the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digitalhealth front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,
But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digitalhealth” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.
As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digitalhealth innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.
The health care landscape in 2030 will feature a n expanded consumer health industry t hat will become, “an established branch of the health ecosystem focused on promoting health, preventing, disease, treating symptoms and extending healthy longevity,” according to a report published by Deloitte in September 2024, Accelerating the future: (..)
health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.
It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digitalhealth funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph. The pandemic has accelerated funding in digitalhealth tools across many forms, shown in Rock Health’s second chart here on top funded value and clinical propositions.
For all of us in tech, and especially in the health/care ecosystem, this is our opportunity to embrace this multi-pronged pandemic-era challenge for all health citizens and ensure that the technology and innovations we develop serve each other and the world.
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