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

Health Populi

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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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

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. But a telehealth encounter was seen as more convenient than an office visit by 56% of older people.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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

Health Populi

The green circle diagram from Deloitte’s report documents a growing willingness among patients to use virtual health services, increasing from 80% of consumers willing to use telehealth in 2020, 84% in 2022, and 94% in 2024.

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

Health Populi

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

The first chart lays out 3 timelines for consumers’ experience with health and fitness activities: those used before the COVID-19 pandemic, those currently using, and those people plan to use after the pandemic. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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

Health Populi

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.