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Only 1 in 4 People Over 50 Use a Mobile Health App – And They Tend to Be Healthier and Wealthier

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use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. 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%).

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones.

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

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Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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

Health Populi

Compared with young adults who were not dealing with depression at all, peers with moderate to severe depression indexed much higher across all health seeking categories — especially for the mental health conditions, along with sleep disorders, smoking/vaping, eating disorders, drug or alcohol abuse, and STDs.

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mHealth Guide to HIMSS19

mHealth Insight

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight blog. Cardinal Analytx (USA/Booth 888-33). Humetrix (USA/Booth 6578).

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

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Self-study videos and materials, these are some great options: Telehealth 101 and 202 through University of Texas , California Telehealth Resource Center and Southwest Telehealth Resource Center. Amwell’s Online Care Group (OCG) is an online medical practice that connects providers with patients through live video visits.

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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry

Advanced Medical Reviews

As the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) notes, different telehealth modalities include: Live video: referred to as “synchronous” format and uses live interaction between two parties over video. In addition, telehealth is presenting this industry with a lot more options with which to engage patients.