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Mercom: Telemedicine investments led 2020's $14.8B in digital health fundraising

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JANUARY 7, 2021

While equity investments in telemedicine rose 139% to $4.3 billion, other areas like data analytics and mobile health apps also earned strong support from investors.

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Doctors’ Recommendations Are Top Motivators for Consumers Who Buy Digital Health Devices: Trust and Health

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. adults in October 2024 to gauge peoples’ views on digital health tools, buying trends, and trust.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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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For Health Consumers, Trust, Privacy, & Good Experience Must Be Baked Into Digital Health Care

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

Accenture probes this question in a report published today asking, How Can Leaders Make Recent Digital Health Gains Last? had adopted wearable technology for health tracking, a nearly 50% decline from 2019 (from 33% in 2018 to 18% in late 2019). These establish a new baseline on the health consumer demand side for virtual care.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

While telehealth, mobile health 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 digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

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 Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. There’s high demand among both decision makers and employees for a pro-health culture in companies.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. Welcome to #CES2022: where health/care is everywhere.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

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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Ping An launches AI avatars of top Chinese doctors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2025

Shanghai-based Ping An Health, the health technology unit of Chinese insurance firm Ping An, has launched a generative AI-powered chatbot on its mobile health application featuring the avatars of real physicians.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

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 digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is 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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Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Digital Health Technologies ( DHTs ) have revolutionized the landscape of clinical trials, particularly in neurology research, by enabling the collection of real-world data outside traditional clinical settings. In a recent review paper appeared on Nature , Mittermaier et al. in 2010 to 11.4%

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Health-Tech at the Holidays: 2024 Consumer Health-Tech Trends Under the Tree

Health Populi

DECEMBER 16, 2024

adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. One in two U.S.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

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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How BioPharma Can Play in Consumers’ Retail Experience Expectations

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2025

.” And those services are underpinned and scaled through digital technology. While most patients have had some experience using digital tools in their medicines-life-flows, one-half said they had to use more than one digital health platform, lacking a more integrated omnichannel approach.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health 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 Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

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. The company also calls out the digital divide where it exists, to ensure including diverse people in business plans and health care innovations.

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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons sought to take a closer look at the patients who sought surgical consultations in-person and via telemedicine in 2020. "Importantly, telemedicine use patterns continue to evolve during the pandemic. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2023

Patient experience has become a primary focus in our industry, and the digital transformation has provided new ways to enhance it. Telemedicine also reduces wait times and the need for travel, making it a desirable option for patients. This allows patients to receive treatment from the comfort and privacy of their own home.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

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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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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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The Promise of Telehealth for Older People – the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This month’s October 2019 study finds a cohort of Boomers and older peers few of whom have actually used telemedicine — only one in seven people over 50 said their providers offered care via telehealth, and only 4% of people had a telehealth visit in the past year. It’s not enough to build/offer digital health tech to patients.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

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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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth.

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Why It's Time to Embrace Telemedicine

eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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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Global Digital Health Market Report 2023: Rising Demand for Remote Healthcare Services Across the Globe Drives Growth

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MAY 25, 2023

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Global Digital Health Market Report and Forecast 2023-2031” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The global digital health market value in 2022 was USD 227.5 billion driven by the rising demand for remote healthcare services across the globe.

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

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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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. 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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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health 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.

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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

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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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The New Kid on the Block: How Blockchain Can Revolutionize Access to Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Data is the bread and butter of the digital health industry. DApps release digital health researchers from the long and arduous process of acquiring specific datasets and trying to unify them. The following is a guest article by Guy Tish, Co-Founder and CTO at Briya. But where does this information come from?

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Connecting for Health at Home: A Unified Field Theory from #CES2025 (On Samsung, Withings, and Panasonic)

Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

You can experience the entire press conference here, “Everyday, Everywhere” includes health, which at CES 2025 was further discussed by Hon Pak, SVP and Head of the Digital Health Team for Samsung Electronics.

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Digital Health Tools, Telemedicine, and Mobile Health Applications: How They’re Enhancing Population Health

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Though our movement into a digital and remote world was accelerated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is a movement that has proven to be quite beneficial. We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff.

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How Digitization is Improving Patient Care in Bharat

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MARCH 5, 2023

In India with Aadhar Card, the Government was able to digitize all Indian citizen data and create a powerful base for digitization. Next came the UPI through which the financial sector was digitized at a scale and speed never seen before. ABHA by the Indian Government is HIMS for every Indian citizen.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

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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19Labs and Pro México Indígena Revolutionize Healthcare Access for Indigenous Communities

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Over 120 communities in 12 municipalities of two states of Mexico are being served, providing care for members of the Mazahua, Otomi, and Tseltal language groups via state-of-the-art mobile health clinics. Pro México members receiving training on the GALE telemedicine units.

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As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks

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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MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Working in telemedicine can leave you feeling disconnected from others.

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Mercom: Telemedicine investments led 2020's $14.8B in digital health fundraising

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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