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Closing the Chasm Between Patients and Clinicians With Digital Health Tools – Some Health Consumer Context for #HLTHUSA

Health Populi

Research from Circana, who would not be a typical HLTH exhibitor but who provide us with great research into consumers and retail behavior, looked at The Digital Health Consumer in a September 2024 report. consumers), managing weight (among 59%), fine-tuning lifestyle habits for health (57%), and to boost energy (for 39% of consumers).

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

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.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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CMS's 2019 proposal makes broad strides in telehealth, interoperability, documentation

Mobi Health News

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its new proposed Physician Fee Schedule and Qualified Payment Program updates for 2019, and the announcement includes some big strides forward in promoting digital health technology, including widened telemedicine coverage, an overhaul of documentation requirements, and a new focus on interoperability. (..)

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2021HealthTech IPO Rush: 20+ Digital Health companies went public in 2021 but where are they now?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: The digital health IPO boom of 2021 saw a surge of companies entering the public market, but the landscape has shifted since then. Why did so many Digital Health companies go public in 2021? There were a confluence of factors that fueled the surge of digital health companies going public in 2021: 1.

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Only 1 in 4 People Over 50 Use a Mobile Health App – And They Tend to Be Healthier and Wealthier

Health Populi

Behavior change in health is hard, especially when people don’t know the facts about the need to track chronic conditions and then feel empowered to make the changes to address those conditions.

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit.