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This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering publichealth in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the PublicHealth Tech Initiative.
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While telehealth, mobilehealth apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. The report examines three areas of digitalhealth adoption: Live video telemedicine.
Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digitalhealth technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows. For the U.S. study, Edelman interviewed 1,500 U.S.
But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for DigitalHealth and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the publichealth crisis accelerated digitalhealth “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.
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 digitalhealth. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.
When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.
What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digitalhealth tools. health consumers’ growing digitalhealth “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care.
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I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digitalhealth and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.
Growing digitalhealth investments that will push patient utilization up. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records. during the publichealth crisis.
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 mobilehealth apps downloaded on smartphones. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.
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“Compare digitalhealth 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 DigitalHealth , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI. million, with a median of $3.9
It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”
This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the publichealth crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobilehealth app.
Finally, as we’ve seen hockey-stick growth of telehealth in the pandemic used by health consumers who sought to avoid in-person visits to doctor’s offices or hospital clinics, one in five people were also using a mobilehealth monitoring device or app. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.
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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.
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digitalhealth technology stalled. One of the driving forces was found to be privacy concerns about health data protections. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.
How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging publichealth moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the publichealth challenge? Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digitalhealth services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure.
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I discussed that important publichealth/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. They are, in my evolving concept of the health/care ecosystem, retail health’s front-line workers. Eight in 10 people 65 and older have multiple chronic conditions, and 50% of people 45-64 do, as well.
broadband households had a health condition sensitive to indoor air quality, and one-third of U.S. Kudos to Parks Associates for their including the caregiver lens on digitalhealth at-home: adult children are collaborators in their parents’ and loved ones’ home/care strategies and purchases, both as influencers as family payers.
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Exec Summary: Digitalhealth in Africa is a rapidly growing field, with the potential to improve access to healthcare and quality of care across the continent. Cost: Digitalhealth technologies can be expensive, which can make them inaccessible to low-income populations.
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Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the publichealth crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Younger people are more likely to demand and be comfortable with virtual care platforms.
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By providing increased visibility of personal health data and access to richer information on patient and consumer health, these advancements are leading us towards a convergence of individuals, new information and insights, technology and increased connectivity to optimise personal health care and outcomes.
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connects the dots between our underlying health status to those 3 P’s, calling out the inter-relationship between our individual well-being, the political environment, and publichealth.
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