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Connected health tools help seniors, but a digital divide persists

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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Ping An launches AI avatars of top Chinese doctors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Users can interact with them synchronously through text, voice, or video chat.

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

Health Populi

This is borne out in Deloitte’s just-published survey research into health consumers, looking into t he growing disconnect between virtual health availability and consumer demand.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

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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Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Check out our community’s Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications predictions: Trea Zemaitis, Senior Security Engineer at Core4ce The integration of IoT devices in healthcare has transformed patient care, enabling continuous monitoring and personalized treatment.

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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The Digital Health Corner

Relative to Ad specifically, I would reference the incredibly informative and moving award-winning film Alive Inside , documenting the response of patients with severe Ad to music relevant to their personal past. An intriguing interactive game/tool is Tovertafel , a Dutch technology which projects via suspended box visuals onto a table.

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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Innovation and improvements in digital health occur at lightning speed in comparison to other FDA regulated industries and require different approval and oversight strategies (see below). The Action Plan is a major step in the right direction because it recognizes digital health’s unique attributes which span both IT and clinical arenas.