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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

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But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. On average, U.S.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

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Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Rock Health’s top-line findings were that: Patient-generated health data creates opportunity, and potential challenges. of total consumers, followed by: 9.6%

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

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The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

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I hearken back to a favorite column from JAMA published in 2015 but retaining its relevance ongoing: Value-Based Payments Require Valuing What Matters to Patients. Convenience, adherence, and relationship — these are areas that patients value, and physicians see the role of tech in bolstering these features.

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

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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.

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From Yorkshire Lad to Global Design for Health: A Profile of Sean Carney of Philips

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“We have designers embedded in each business unit from consumer health through clinical medical technology products,” Sean explained. “At Philips, designers work horizontally across business units, not in isolation; they’re connecting dots, patient journeys, and multiple points,” Sean said.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

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.’… What I think we all need to work on and move toward – and certainly within the ONC, we’re doing our best to do this – is thinking about health equity by design.” ” Dr. Winston Wong and colleagues wrote an essay in JAMA in April 2015 called Achieving Health Equity by Design.

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