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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

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” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. consumers’ eyes.

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

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As more consumers view their homes as personal and safe health havens, there is no shortage of suppliers in the food, retail, and mobility sectors working fast to meet that demand for convenient and accessible services. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID.

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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. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

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One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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

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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. during the public health crisis.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

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Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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

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The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.