Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

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.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools. health consumers’ growing digital health “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this context, digital health emerges as a catalyst for revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Growing digital health 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 public health crisis.

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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. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.

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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. million, with a median of $3.9

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

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.”

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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

JUNE 11, 2020

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 mobile health monitoring device or app. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digital health 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digital health 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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Every passenger traveling to the country is compelled to fill out the details in this form, which includes the flight number, seat location, and arrival date, along with a mobile phone number and local address in Belgium where one was staying (especially key for potential quarantine needs).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I discussed that important public health/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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

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 digital health 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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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digitally enabled healthcare means building digital technologies into the fabric of our ecosystem to improve outcomes and enhance efficiency in day-to-day health and wellness.” This month, a paper on the digital determinants of health was published in PLOS Digital Health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the book, I explained how consumers were increasingly “Amazon-Primed” for customer service expectations, recognizing what looked and felt “good” at retail, and how retail and digital health ecosystems were evolving to serve patients-as-consumers. That book ended with a chapter asking whether U.S.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 19, 2023

Exec Summary: Digital health in Africa is a rapidly growing field, with the potential to improve access to healthcare and quality of care across the continent. Cost: Digital health technologies can be expensive, which can make them inaccessible to low-income populations.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the fastest-growing areas of digital health that grew in the COVID-19 pandemic was use of smartphones for health and fitness. consumers’ smartphone use for managing health grew by 50% during the public health crisis. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

Their findings about Black patients, they said, "may reflect institutional efforts to expand digital health access for communities of color in addition to disproportionate access barriers to in-person care in this population. THE LARGER TREND. "Importantly, telemedicine use patterns continue to evolve during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

With the home as health hub, a phenomenon reinforced by the public health crisis, Best Buy Health’s (BBH) 2018 vision is meeting the moment, like the old Wayne Gretzky metaphor of knowing where the hockey puck would go and being there to meet it.

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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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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. The classification of substance abuse as a chronic condition by the ACA has implications with regards to digital health.

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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

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health 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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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 30, 2017

In a previous post I discussed the merits of music as an ideal digital health tool. I would submit that the potential for digital tech to prolong independence and/or improve lives of caregivers in the home or at a distance must be the subject of clinical studies.

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Waracle

MAY 16, 2019

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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Digital Health Global

JUNE 17, 2024

Leading Mobile Health Provider Brings Together Industry Experts to Help Drive Innovation and Elevate Patient Care NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DocGo Inc. During his 30-year career in academic medicine and public health, Dr. Bobrow has been dedicated to promoting equitable, high-quality medical care for all.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2024

Two-thirds of consumers overall see that online tools and mobile apps can help with diet and physical activity — ranging from a low (though majority) of 54% of Boomers to over 70% of Millennials and Gen Z consumers. Department of Agriculture) which is responsible for the SNAP nutrition assistance program in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

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 public health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

Apple is a presence at HIMSS18, collaborating with some tech-savvy hospitals, and recently announcing its foray into electronic health records innovations for better patient access. consumers trust retail and digital health companies to help them manage health as they trust healthcare providers, I explained in this Health Populi post.

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