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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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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

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

Of course not. health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools?

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In charting a future course for healthcare, let’s think bigger

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Angela Jones Angela Jones is a program manager in digital health transformation at Booz Allen Hamilton. Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: In charting a future course for healthcare, let’s think bigger Featured Decision Content: Some important considerations. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Consumer Adoption of Digital Health in 2022

Digital Health Wire

The latest report from Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health showed that not even the end of the public health emergency or a looming recession could put a dent in the adoption of new health tech. The post Consumer Adoption of Digital Health in 2022 appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Dr. Patrice Harris sees the promise, and the peril, of digital health innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There's no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for accelerated digital transformation. The past 18 months have seen an enormous uptick in interest and use of digital health tools, including those enabling telehealth , COVID-19 testing and data sharing , contact tracing and vaccine verification passes.