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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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Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Health Populi

adults in early December 2021 for this survey, Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is a pre-cursor for health engagement, with authenticity running a close second as a factor that health consumers lean into when partnering with organizations for their health. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. What is the point of sneering at older people? This is laudable. Just saying.

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#095: Special Episode from DOCSF/JPM: Daniel Kraft reflects on 2019 and transformative ideas for the decade ahead

Digital Health Today

With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has chaired the Medicine for Singularity University since its inception in 2008. Follow Digital Health Today on Twitter , Linkedin , Facebook and Instagram. Connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

Health Populi

That study resulted in the paper, A Call for Care That’s Personal, Accessible and Social , which the company’s CMO, Nicole Althaus, and I will be discussing today at AHIP’s Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum in Chicago.

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Withings Founder Eric Careel : Why I Bought My Digital Health Company Back From Nokia

Lloyd Price

Last week the soft-spoken, silver haired Frenchman bought back Withings from Nokia for an undisclosed sum, making the company he founded in 2008 private once again. It sells connected-health products like a fitness-tracking watch, and bathroom scales that send your weight and BMI to a smartphone for display on a line graph.

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As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks

Health Populi

Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018. The biggest cost problem is for people who are sick, Altman asserted: this is, as he observed, “the opposite of how a health system should work.”