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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020.

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Time To Travel And Wait In Health Care: The Opportunity For Self-Care At Home

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Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

Health Populi

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

Health Populi

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

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The World Health Organization called for “prescribing” clean air for the world’s children, 90% of whom were breathing toxic air in 2018. The good news is that within a short period of time, respiratory health can improve once air quality is addressed, this study found.