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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

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use at least one medical device at home — likely a blood pressure monitor. used by nearly one-half of people based on a survey of 2,000 consumers conducted for Propel Software. That includes oral health and dental bills: 2 in 5 U.S. Most people in the U.S.

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How BioPharma Can Play in Consumers’ Retail Experience Expectations

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Typically, this would be a patient portal from a health care provider, and then the patient clicking into additional digital front doors such as telehealth platforms for virtual consults, pharmacy delivery channels, wearable tech app sites, and clinical lab websites. And even 40% of U.S.

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

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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. Only 6% of workers in this survey said they would not be willing to share their PHI for any reason.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

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The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

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

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Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding.

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Consumers Are Financially Stressed – What This Means for Health/Care in 2025

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Specific to consumers home health care economics, we learn from Gallup and West Health that Americans borrowed about $74 billion to pay medical bills in 2024. consumers who borrowed money to pay for health care in the past year. That’s about 30 million U.S. FICO scores). FICO scores).