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

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The CTA report delves into many consumer-facing tech categories: I will focus on my wheelhouse here for health-medical technology. In this study, it’s wearables like smartwatches and fitness trackers, smart rings, video subscriptions, remote health monitors, and connected fitness that show up for consumer tech-givers in 2024.

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

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To illustrate this, note that consumer-subscribers of subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) grew by millions in 2021, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and AppleTV all expanding their membership rosters. Another important trend that is an umbrella over more granular forecasts is the consumer’s embrace of services.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

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CTA looked at ten categories of consumer tech for the research: mobile devices, video products, audio products, computing devices, video gaming, smart homes, wearable tech, automotive tech, health & wellness, and lifestyle tech. The poll was conducted among 2,630 U.S. adults 18 and over in April and May 2022.

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Kaspersky survey raises concerns about patient trust in telehealth

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At the same time, many respondents flagged patient trust in the modality, with more than half of frontline remote telehealth providers experiencing cases where individuals have declined a video call with medical staff out of privacy or data safety concerns. The risks aren't just limited to synchronous video appointments.

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

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Similarly, one-half of consumers expressed demand for digital health technologies in a study from GlobalWebIndex last year. 36% would use a digital health assistant (chatbot) to offer health advice, and 34% a digital health coach to help manage chronic disease or pain.

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Are Robots Coming to Healthcare? Consumers Say Not-So-Fast

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For more on Bixby and BotCare, check out this video from Samsung’s CES 2019 press conference. The post Are Robots Coming to Healthcare? Consumers Say Not-So-Fast appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

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The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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