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Medical technology firms gets personal with ‘Digital Twins’

Lloyd Price

A shortage of doctors in countries such as China is also spurring demand for new AI tools to analyze medical images and the race is on to commercialize products that could shake up health care systems around the world. billion by 2021 from $811 million in 2015, according to a study by the research firm Frost & Sullivan.

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How Whirlpool’s #CareCounts Campaign Bolsters a Key Social Determinant of Health

Health Populi

Since 2015, Whirlpool has donated to 82 schools in 18 cities, impacting about 38,000 young students, according to company statistics. I saw this sign, talked with the Whirlpool team about “care,” and referred to this theme in my write-up of CES here on Health Populi in January 2015.

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

Health Populi

consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Smart appliances, increasing to at least one per broadband household from 33% of homes in 2015 to 42% in 2020.

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

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. consumers would be most willing to share their health data. with Apple.

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

Health Populi

Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories. Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

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.