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

Health Populi

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. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Digital Health and Technological Promise: A Sociological Inquiry

Lloyd Price

What is ‘digital health’? Digital health’ is of growing interest to policymakers, clinicians, and businesses. Citizens’ use of digital technologies is likened to a Faustian bargain: citizens are likely to surrender something of far greater value (their personal data) than what they obtain from their use.

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Food as Medicine – Philips’ Take On An Apple A Day from the Rijksmuseum

Health Populi

When I attended South-by-Southwest in 2015, that was the company’s initial bold foray into digital health, beginning to divest assets and businesses that did not relate to health and healthcare. Here’s my write-up of health, everywhere, at #SXSW2015 , including the Philips story.

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IT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

South Korea already has experienced that in-hospital infections are disastrous from MERS outbreak in 2015. How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? SNUBH has been conducting surveys since 2015 through an electronic survey system. Lessons learnt.

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The Digital Pharmacy: Walgreens’ Emerging Strategy

Chilmark Research

First, Walgreens and WebMD have been collaborating for months on a partnership that brings WebMD tools (namely an online goal-setting/care coaching program) to the Walgreens website, and introduces Balance Rewards-based incentives for users of the WebMD app who are tracking fitness, nutrition, or other health data.

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Digital health start-ups in India: The challenge of scale

Lloyd Price

times by 2020, according to the 2015 report. A major portion of the projected growth is expected to be driven by digital health start-ups. Digital health start-ups are now an integral part of the Indian healthcare ecosystem. The industry was expected to grow 1.5

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What HealthyThinker Is Thinking About Health at CES 2020

Health Populi

Next week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will convene CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, where over 180,000 tech-minded people from around the world will convene to kick the tires on new TVs, games, smart home devices, 5G connections, 3-D printing, drones, and to be sure, digital health innovations.