Integrated fitness tracker, mobile health app potentially improves teachers' mental wellness - study
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Fitbit and MindFi have teamed up to study the impact of their combined solutions on teachers' mental well-being.
Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived
Health Populi
MARCH 28, 2019
User names were identified by one in five apps studied. Beyond this third-party data analysis, the research identified fourth-party sharing in the mobile app ecosystem. The prevalence of Google in this ecosystem is a key finding from the study. pharmacies, prescription drugs), email addresses, and drug lists. style GDPR?
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Study: Smartphone app effective in treating serious mental illness
Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2018
A recent study published by Psychiatric Services found that mobile health interventions were as effective in treating patients with serious mental illness compared to an in-person group therapy.
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Mobile health program improved addiction outcomes despite low clinician engagement
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Integration of a practitioner-developed mobile health system within a primary care setting was well-received by substance use disorder (SUD) patients and generally improved outcomes, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
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Tailor fit digital health tech to the elderly's needs: study
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Based on latest survey in South Korea, there is a difference in the use of mobile health apps and devices between frail and healthy seniors.
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Study seeks to identify key factors in the adoption of a mobile health solution for oncology
Mobi Health News
MAY 23, 2019
Researchers carried out 17 interviews with doctors and nurses using a free oncology decision support app in Europe.
Connected health tools help seniors, but a digital divide persists
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 30, 2025
Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Socioeconomic factors further shaped adoption patterns.
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Study: There's still very little evidence that health apps work
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
A new overview of systematic reviews of published randomized control trials of mobile health apps found just 23 RCTs of currently-available apps have been conducted, and less than half of those showed a positive health effect from the app in question.
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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. 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”
Health Populi
JANUARY 15, 2020
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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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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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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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care
Health Populi
MAY 3, 2021
Similarly, 42% of global health citizens were very or extremely comfortable with consulting a therapist online or via a mobile health app for mental health counsel and support.
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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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Ping An launches AI avatars of top Chinese doctors
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 4, 2025
Shanghai-based Ping An Health, the health technology unit of Chinese insurance firm Ping An, has launched a generative AI-powered chatbot on its mobile health application featuring the avatars of real physicians. Ping An Health has doubled down on AI integration in recent years.
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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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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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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health
Health Populi
JULY 31, 2018
There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know. adults, found in other studies.
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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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Navigating parenthood made easy with SPA
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 24, 2024
NUS Nursing’s SPA App shows positive outcomes for parents The Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at NUS in Singapore introduces the Supportive Parenting Application (SPA) , a groundbreaking tool offering vital support for those navigating the complexities of early parenthood.
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Examining structural racism in health tech
KevinMD
JUNE 7, 2021
Beyond the 8,000+ and climbing signatories to the Change.org petition asking for a change to JAMA leadership, the data on microaggressions and their contributions to physician burnout published in a recent study in JAMA Surgery presents clear. Read more…. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Learn more.
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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 19, 2022
A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons sought to take a closer look at the patients who sought surgical consultations in-person and via telemedicine in 2020. From June 24 through the end of the year, referred to as "Phase II," the study showed a different story. THE LARGER TREND.
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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study.
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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. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?
DigitalHealth
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Today's briefing includes a study looking at the efficacy of mobile health apps and news that ICSs are working with housing providers to improve healthcare.
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In the Pandemic, We’re All About Food
Health Populi
JUNE 11, 2020
consumers’ food habits in the organization’s annual 2020 Food & Health Survey , the fifteenth year of the study. People with higher levels of education are more focused on food’s role in health than weight, the study found. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.
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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S. Insights from this study have informed the launch of the Lively Flip , which Best Buy Health introduces today.
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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions
MAY 6, 2015
Technology may be revolutionizing the healthcare industry but while mobile health applications and cloud-based management are convenient, many think they may be compromising the privacy of healthcare data. It’s also important to note that mobile health isn’t just for patients either. Preventative Measures.
The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
The drawing illustrates the many life-flows that consumers adopted as a result of the Great Lockdown, tele-working from home, going to school from home, streaming entertainment instead of heading to the brick-and-mortar cinema, shopping, and indeed, accessing health care.
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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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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2021
study, Edelman interviewed 1,500 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows. For the U.S.
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Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
The guide offers clarification for billing for remote patient monitoring, synchronous (real-time) asynchronous (store-and-forward) telehealth services and billing for virtual healthcare services, as well as mobile health services. ON THE RECORD.
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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
This study found that most Americans are fairly or very concerned about sharing their data with companies, as well as how companies use and store consumers’ personal data. Only people over 65 prefer desktop computers for a few of these tasks, otherwise the phone dominates the task-map.
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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. In total, Mercer interviewed 16,564 workers and 1,300 senior decision makers in companies.
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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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Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile health application for enhancing public private mix for TB care among healthcare Workers in Southwestern Uganda
BMC Digital Health
MARCH 2, 2023
Mobile health interventions can potentially enhance public–private linkage for tuberculosis care. This study sought to assess the initial. However, evidence about their acceptability and feasibility is lacking.
Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.
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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2022
While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. adults 18 and over in August 2021.
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Thus, the main takeaway from the study, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman noted, is that rising health care costs absolutely remain a burden for employers — but a bigger problem for workers in America. Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding.
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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
Note that telehealth was not nearly the only digital health tool employed by consumers and clinicians during the pandemic; clinical trials leveraged connected devices, care team emails proliferated (part of telehealth, broadly defined), and disease management apps supported patients managing chronic conditions from home.
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Stroke Prevention and Digital Health
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Mobile health technologies have enormous potential to enhance lifestyle changes and prevent cardiovascular diseases. One app was tested in a study and proved to be useful, easy to use, and acceptable. However, several barriers must be addressed to fully realize this promising strategy.
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