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Digital Health Tools, Telemedicine, and Mobile Health Applications: How They’re Enhancing Population Health

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff. Mobile health technologies, such as nudges, self-scheduling, and asynchronous communication, empower patients to modify their behaviors.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Familiarity with virtual care breeds demand, based on the Parks Associates study.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. ” One in 4 consumers have been alerted by a personal medical device regarding a pending health issue.

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 16, 2024

adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. One in two U.S.

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Doctors’ Recommendations Are Top Motivators for Consumers Who Buy Digital Health Devices: Trust and Health

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. For the study, Propel Software engaged Talker Research to conduct a survey among 2,000 U.S.

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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. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The bar chart from Kaiser Family Foundation’s look into mental health in 2020, illustrates that pandemic mental health reality, that over one-half of people between 18 and 24 reported symptoms of anxiety or depression during the public health crisis, with the incidence of feeling anxious or depressed declining with age.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

have a smart people at home, only 1 in 13 Americans have used a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant for health care. But over one-half of consumers would like to access a voice assistant for some aspect of their health care, according to a study from Orbita and Voicebot , Voice Assistant Consumer Adoption in Healthcare.

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Patients’ experience using an app for home remote monitoring of heart failure for a university hospital in Quebec, Canada

BMC Digital Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The use of mobile health apps for remote monitoring has considerable potential for patient care. However, more research is needed to gather patients’ experience with their use. This study evaluates heart failu.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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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

In developing services and products to scale health and well-being for all, being clear and inclusive about health consumers’ tastes and preferences, health risks and conditions, and technology realities are key to embed in our planning and design thinking.

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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

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. This bolsters Accenture’s finding discussed above about the use of IM/AI in health care. Three-fourths of U.S.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This month’s October 2019 study finds a cohort of Boomers and older peers few of whom have actually used telemedicine — only one in seven people over 50 said their providers offered care via telehealth, and only 4% of people had a telehealth visit in the past year. It’s not enough to build/offer digital health tech to patients.

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Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Evolution and Benefits of DHTs in Neurology Trials DHTs – like wearables, mobile health apps, and telemedicine platforms – have for example significantly impacted the design and execution of neurology trials. It has been used in various studies in Europe with great results. in 2010 to 11.4%

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health).

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How to Get Better Care to More People? Address Burnout, Bridge Insights, Embed Sustainability – the Philips Future Health Index 2024

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024. in terms of countries covered in the study. Globally, two-thirds of health care leaders see deteriorating staff well-being, physical and mental. First, the staff shortage which is a worldwide phenomenon, from Australia to the U.S.

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Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Check out our community’s Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications predictions: Trea Zemaitis, Senior Security Engineer at Core4ce The integration of IoT devices in healthcare has transformed patient care, enabling continuous monitoring and personalized treatment.

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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Across the four types of tech studied, it’s smartphones that top the list of penetration in rural areas (at 71%), closely followed by computers (desktop or laptop, with 69% adoption), broadband (at 63%) and tablets in fourth/last place (49%).

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Bonus Features – September 1, 2024 – 2 in 3 patients would schedule an appointment for a sensitive issue with a chatbot over a human, patients with cancer more than twice as likely as other patients to access medical records online, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. patients anticipate AI will create a more efficient patient experience , according to a recent Talkdesk survey. Research Half of U.S.

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What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The first chart from the Pew study illustrates that there are several other social networks tightly clustered in terms of use beyond Instagram, including Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and WhatsApp. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. adults using the site compared with 68% using Facebook.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

The growth of virtual care and telehealth, adoption of wearable technologies ( discussed here in Health Populi in yesterday’s coverage of the Capgemini health consumer study), and growing use of the cloud were all shown off at CES 2020.

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

.” As clinicians and consumers join forces to take healthcare home, it’s incumbent on everyone to assess to measure these experiences in this early adoption phase. We’ll need to crowdsource and share findings from these studies to gauge what works.

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Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Those communities have matured and a decade later, led to the New England Journal of Medicine ‘s Catalyst community assessing how social networks can improve patient health. The Insights Report from this study is available here.

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Older Americans Mostly Receptive to Apps for Health, but Chronically Ill People Could Use a Nudge (and a Payer)

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2024

AARP found that 7 in 10 people ages 50+ are “app-receptive” for health and wellness apps in Unlocking Health and Wellness Apps: Experiences of Adults Age 50-Plus , a summary of research conducted with U.S. consumers 50 and over from AARP.

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Most Americans Follow an Eating Pattern in Search of Energy, Protein, and Well-Being – With Growing Financial Stress: A Food as Medicine Update

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2024

IFIC covered two very current aspects of health consumers’ lives and perspectives in this year’s study: the role of financial health in overall health and home economics (impacting food choices), and opinions about the GLP-1 drugs for weight loss.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

are living omnichannel lives : whether in retail via ecommerce, buying online and picking up in store, or banking online, or studying for college degrees via Coursera, people live, work, play, pray, and learn offline and on-, in real-time and asynchronously. In fact, most people living and working in the U.S.

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The Definitive Guide to Increase Patient Engagement in 2023

Mend

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

One study showed that 4 in 10 patients misunderstand or ignore aftercare instructions. This is a patient engagement benchmark that every healthcare practice should consider. The final step in the patient journey often involves payment collection as well. Convenience: Patients are now consumers.

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

health consumer, bearing more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, or being un- or under-insured, uses self-care as a financial health hedge. healthcare system in terms of clinician visits averted and prescription drug cost savings.

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Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium

Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

” As it turns out, Clorox was one of the fastest-growing brands in the pandemic, along with gaining a lot of consumer trust equity based on several studies.

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Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

Lloyd Price

JUNE 11, 2019

The report highlights that the majority of healthcare professionals are adapting to new ways of working, with 76% reporting that they use digital health records within their hospital/practice, and 80% sharing patient information electronically with other healthcare professionals inside their health facility.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA.

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How Stepping Up to Transform Mobile Medical Care around the Country Makes the Biggest Change in Wellness of Public Health

KB Dental Consulting

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Mobile health is opening new opportunities for communication between patients and healthcare medical providers. This chance gives positive feedback by improving the outcomes and enhancing the patient experience. Mobile medical health is starting to modify the way how health care is delivered and also received.

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What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

Some of the key trends in healthtech evolution include: The rise of digital health: Digital health is the use of technology to deliver healthcare services remotely. This includes telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable devices. These devices are making it possible to provide earlier and more targeted care.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

And on the topic of apps, several of its devices support third-party software offerings that open more doors for health data collection or monitoring – for instance, a photoplethysmography (PPG)-based feature enabling nighttime atrial fibrillation readings. The Loop system is intended to integrate into existing workflows.

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Patient Engagement and Patient Portals by 2030

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

More personalised and engaging patient portals: Patient portals in 2030 will be more personalised and engaging than they are today. They will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to tailor the patient experience to individual needs.

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Providence Saint John uses AI platform to Empower Cancer Patients & Providers for Better Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

JULY 20, 2023

With predictive analytics, providers can identify at-risk patients and see a complete real-time view of the care journey for immediate actions. AI Data- Driven Cancer Platform: Patient Experience Patient Patricia (patient persona), 74 years old, is newly diagnosed with breast cancer.

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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

The pandemic has become a sort of forcing function on all aspects of daily living, include health care. Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. Health Consumers, Deloitte polled 4,522 U.S. Among the DIY workflows was self-care for health care.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

With technology, we can run studies and find that maybe it costs less money to provide nutritional meal kits free of charge than it does to pay for the effects of a low- nutrition diet across a covered population.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That’s the top-line finding in the 2024 State of Digital Health Purchasing from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI). PHTI surveyed 322 digital health decision makers working in employers, health plans, and health systems, fielding the study in July and August 2024.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

In tracking this last health factor for U.S. The top-line of the studies is that the percent of people in America feeling financially wobbly has increased since the fourth quarter of 2024. Furthermore, see that the median amount borrowed for health care triples among people 50 years of age and older.

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Digital Health Tools, Telemedicine, and Mobile Health Applications: How They’re Enhancing Population Health

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

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

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

Doctors’ Recommendations Are Top Motivators for Consumers Who Buy Digital Health Devices: Trust and Health

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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

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

Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Patients’ experience using an app for home remote monitoring of heart failure for a university hospital in Quebec, Canada

Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

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

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

Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials

Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

How to Get Better Care to More People? Address Burnout, Bridge Insights, Embed Sustainability – the Philips Future Health Index 2024

Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications – 2025 Health IT Predictions

The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Bonus Features – September 1, 2024 – 2 in 3 patients would schedule an appointment for a sensitive issue with a chatbot over a human, patients with cancer more than twice as likely as other patients to access medical records online, plus 24 more stories

What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Older Americans Mostly Receptive to Apps for Health, but Chronically Ill People Could Use a Nudge (and a Payer)

Most Americans Follow an Eating Pattern in Search of Energy, Protein, and Well-Being – With Growing Financial Stress: A Food as Medicine Update

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

The Definitive Guide to Increase Patient Engagement in 2023

Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium

Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

How Stepping Up to Transform Mobile Medical Care around the Country Makes the Biggest Change in Wellness of Public Health

What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Patient Engagement and Patient Portals by 2030

Providence Saint John uses AI platform to Empower Cancer Patients & Providers for Better Care

The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

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

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

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