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JANUARY 6, 2020

In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. More enterprise applications will be underpinned by 5G communications by 2023, none more important than those for health care.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. For the survey, Deloitte polled 2,018 U.S. adults in the second quarter of 2023.

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MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI. million, with a median of $3.9

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

The new report on Connected Wellness from PYMNTS and Care Credit profiles American health consumers’ use of digital tools for health care promotion and disease prevention. The bottom-line here is that the most connected 10% of consumers were 1.65 That represents 148 million U.S. More granularly, 15.7%

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MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The top two health care concerns facing Americans are out-of-pocket costs and prescriptions drug costs, according to a poll published today in Morning Consult. Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans.

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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. The title of the report, “Health on Demand,” speaks to the first bar chart.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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MAY 10, 2022

Last month, AARP published research on older peoples’ perspectives on their state of mental health and well-being. “While it is understandable to see a decline in mental health or emotional well-being during trying times, this is not a normal part of aging.

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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. The company also calls out the digital divide where it exists, to ensure including diverse people in business plans and health care innovations.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Younger people score lower on psychological needs, the outcome of being a digital native and negative impacts on mental health and well-being among younger citizens. This is why I so often repeat that broadband connectivity is a social determinant of health. Healthcare is now embedded into The Digital Society.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Kantar polled 10,000 online consumers in ten countries to gain perspectives on health citizens’ physical and emotional health and the role of technology to bolster (or diminish) well-being. The nations surveyed included Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The APA’s August/COVID Resilience Survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll in August 2021 among 3,035 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Those pandemic-era headaches and sleep habit changes have been impacting more younger people than older people in America, shown in the last chart. As a result, three in four U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. These numbers raise questions about peoples’ access to mental health services, particularly among people of color more disproportionately negatively affected by COVID-19: Black and LatinX health citizens.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. We’ve been SMAC’ed, and Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 believes we’re in a post-digital era ripe with opportunity.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age. AARP sponsored the poll. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts.

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MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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JUNE 3, 2020

consumers would be interested in using telehealth going forward, McKinsey’s consumer survey from May 20, 2020, found. On the provider side of the telehealth equation, telehealth visits fast-scaled between 50 to 175 times pre- and post-COVID’s emergence, McKinsey’s physician survey learned. Some 3 in 4 U.S.

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MAY 6, 2020

At the same time, peoples’ societal worries seem even more concerning: 82% fear for the health of others, and 9 in 10 consumers are worried about the impact on the larger economy outside of their own kitchen table. Accenture also quantified that people are using virtual digital health tools more for both physical and mental well-being.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They framed the challenge with a key statistic that will stay in your mind once you hear it: that health care workers are 5x more likely to experience workplace violence than employees in private industry. They responded with one word: “Trust.”

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JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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MARCH 30, 2021

And for digital wellness, about 3 in 4 U.S. This analysis was based on data generated through McKinsey’s COVID-19 US Consumer Pulse Survey conducted in mid-February 2021 among 2,000+ U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates McKinsey’s findings on U.S.

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JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

As #CES2019 kicks off in Las Vegas with today’s first Media Day, the Consumer Technology Association presented its forecast on the 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 — and they all play into health, wellness, and medical care. Digital Health Tech Empowers Patients. Envisioning the Smart Home of the Future.

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JUNE 10, 2020

The company quickly learned that scaling in a pandemic can’t just be a physical phenomenon – the need to ramp up, so much so quickly, had to be grounded in digital solutions versus only physical ones (e.g., At that point, the company left behind other businesses not core to health. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As of late May 2020, U.S.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

employers are growing activist roles as stakeholders in the healthcare system, according to the 2019 Large Employers Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). “Our health system was not was not designed with the consumer in mind,” Marcotte observed.

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MARCH 31, 2020

households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools. This research surveyed 1,004 U.S. Affluent households drive this trend, CTA found: 1 in 4 affluent folks are using online health and fitness services more often. ” U.S.

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MARCH 4, 2019

The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging surveyed some 2,000 U.S. adults age 50–80 in October 2018, assessing older peoples’ health, health behaviors, experiences and feelings related to companionship and social isolation. How to mitigate loneliness, especially among older people?

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JULY 29, 2022

Results of a survey from Optum, Qualtrics, and DocASAP quantified consumers’ demands for digital on-ramps to health care. Hy-Vee grocery pharmacy announced test-to-treat services for consumers shown positive for COVID-19 with the therapy Paxlovid to be delivered across the store’s eight-state footprint.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patients as health consumers face challenges paying for care, managing mental health, finding health services and taking time off work to access them, caregiving, and in transportation for care along with personal mobility issues. A few key data points illustrate the magnitude of the frustration: 50% of U.S.

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