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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

Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. One in 3 older people who use a mobile health app do so for exercise, followed by nutrition (currently adopted by 22% of older folks), weight loss (for 20%), and sleep (17%). Just over 1 in 4 people over 50 in the U.S.

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

Beyond tracking activity/steps, exercise and weight via digital means, more patients began to track blood pressure with connected cuffs and wrist-worn devices. More consumers looking at buying new homes were also seeking dedicated home office spaces along with space for fitness and exercise at home.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” here in Health Populi. . Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

Note on the “decrease” half of the graph is exercise, with 18% of people significantly reducing their physical activity, and one-half of Americans moderately decreasing exercise. As we ponder health care utilization and medical spending in 2022, the wild cards that could increase PwC’s 6.5%

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The Growth of Emerging Consumer Electronics Categories Adds to Digital Health Platforms

Health Populi

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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Wearables for health and wellbeing

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Was it fear of ailments that worsen with lack of exercise? Or to put the question another way, what is it that these devices do that can help maintain or improve health, noting that 32% of baby boomers today get no exercise whatsoever , according to the CDC. Track your exercise. Was it the coolness of the Apple Watch?

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

Health Populi

Family and friends dropped from 5th place to seventh, product labels fell from 7th to 8th place in trust, and Fitness trainers or coaches declined from 8th place to 10th — perhaps a sign that we were less dependent on the traditional in-person fitness trainer in the physically-distanced pandemic compared with our 2020 normal exercise routines.