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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. 2018 Digital Health Prediction 3 : Healthbots will increasingly focus on solving automation problems in Healthcare, such as workflow data entry and fraud detection. After years of ambition, hype and hope.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth.

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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. The Action Plan builds on and improves previous digital health guidances.