Mental health, Mobile Health and Patient Experience

How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.

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Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2023

The healthcare industry is experiencing a significant transformation, with technology playing a vital role in modernizing medical practices and enhancing health outcomes. As healthcare professionals, it is our duty to keep up with and adopt new technologies in order to offer the best possible care to our patients.

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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

Next in preference for virtual health was dealing with a general illness (40%), followed by a mental health visit (for 35%), preventive care (33%), weight management (32%), and chronic care management (23%).

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

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What we-know-we-know is that the pandemic experience, emerging five years ago this week based on WHO’s pronouncement of the public health emergency, is that our homes became our health hubs.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. That further enhances patient experience, and further enables the patient to self-manage care at home where it’s safe, hygienic, and risk-managed.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Concerningly, more people dealing with a chronic condition avoided health care more than people without a chronic disease — 48% versus 31%, meaning that 1 in 2 patients with a diagnosed condition delayed health care during the pandemic in 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

At CES 2025, I’ll be updating my environmental analysis of consumer-facing health tech in the categories shown in my chart here: tracking food, weight, activity, sleep, safety, kitchens and cooking, heart functions, mental health, gait, home care, cars and mobility, and bathrooms.

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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

. “Movement is health,” I noted under Drew’s LinkedIn announcement : there is a growing evidence-base proving that physical activity has direct positive impacts on peoples’ chronic diseases and other conditions — including mental health and well-being.

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally! As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Health@Retail Update: Kroger and Hy-Vee Morph Grocery into Health, Walmart’s Health Center, CVS/housing and More

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Now, to the news… and what it means… Start with Kroger and Hy-Vee, national grocery chains, both of which are expanding their health care reach via pharmacists’ licensure practice expansions, and new concepts of mobile health. The American Pharmacists Association offers additional insights on the program here.

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

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

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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Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mental Health Integration : With approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiencing mental illness each year, integrating mental health into chronic disease management is a public health imperative.

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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

JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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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.

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. With 2,250 pharmacies and 220 clinics largely in the Midwest and the southern U.S.,

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Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Consumers Want Help With Health: Can Healthcare Providers Supply That Demand?

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. And maintaining good mental health and staying on-track with health goals come close to managing uncovered costs, Oliver Wyman’s 2018 consumer survey learned.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In our report, A Call for Care That’s Personal, Accessible and Social , we identify older patients as “digital immigrants,” newer to mobile platforms and digital health tools…but learning how to speak this new ”language” and work-flows of telehealth, mobile health apps, and patient portals.

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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

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist.

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Does DTC Digital Health have a future?

Lloyd Price

JUNE 11, 2024

Areas of Opportunity: Focus on Specific Needs: Companies that cater to specific health needs, like mental health or women's health (FemTech), might have an advantage. Mental health services: Online therapy sessions, meditation apps, and mental health chatbots.

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Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago. We are only just past the dawn of the second machine age, where digitization is enabling artificial intelligence.

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Patients are the new healthcare payors, and as such, taking on the role of health consumers. In fact, health and wellness consumers have existed since a person purchased the first toothpaste, aspirin, heating pad, and moisturizing cream at retail.

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What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults use Facebook, and 3 in 4 of them check in on a daily basis.

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What has Telemedicine done for You Lately?

eVisit

JANUARY 11, 2019

For one, a Cisco global survey found that 74% of patients are interested in access to virtual healthcare services. There is a simple reason why: telemedicine simultaneously improves patient experience and makes healthcare providers more efficient.

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Growing Investments in Digital Health Are Driven by Consumer Demand, Clinical Outcomes, and Cost-Savings

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The most common conditions employers, plans, and health systems are covering via digital tools are diabetes, among two-thirds of the purchasers; primary care, for 62%; and mental health, preventive care, and cardiovascular conditions for over 50% of purchasers.

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Telehealth, Right Here, Right Now: Calling on Congress to Vote for America’s Health and Well-being

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In the U.S., there are some issues that still unite most Americans in 2025. We can agree that, The cost of eggs is too high AI can be both exciting and promising at the same time as concerning It s ucks to have your personal data cyberattacked and breached, and, Having access to telehealth is important.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

People define health across many life-flows: physical health, mental health, social health, appearance (“how I look impacts how I feel”) and, to be sure, financial well-being. In tracking this last health factor for U.S.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

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

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

Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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

Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

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

Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health@Retail Update: Kroger and Hy-Vee Morph Grocery into Health, Walmart’s Health Center, CVS/housing and More

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

Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

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

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

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

How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021

Consumers Want Help With Health: Can Healthcare Providers Supply That Demand?

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

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

Does DTC Digital Health have a future?

Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

What has Telemedicine done for You Lately?

Growing Investments in Digital Health Are Driven by Consumer Demand, Clinical Outcomes, and Cost-Savings

Telehealth, Right Here, Right Now: Calling on Congress to Vote for America’s Health and Well-being

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

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