Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market. The first chart from the CDC illustrates that dramatic growth in the use of telehealth ratcheting up since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the U.S. health citizens.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. Parks Associates’ research identified other categories of consumer electronics growth in the 2020 year of the coronavirus, including: Smart home devices, growing to 30% of U.S. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

CTA featured three of these companies in their reveal for the Show, including Invoxia (which supports GPS tracking and AI-enabled IoT sensing); Pawport, which offers pet door-technology supported by an app for access; and, Whisker, which manufactures a Litter-Robot solution as well as a Feeder-Robot for pets.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Figure 7 from the report illustrates the various health-flows people adopted in 2020-21, among people who own smartphones in their households: 24% used a video appointment with a health care professional for the first time during the pandemic, with another 14% continuing to do so. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

households faced serious financial problems in 2020 in the delta variant phase of the pandemic. At the same time, the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the trend-already-in-place at the start of 2020 with our homes evolving into our health care spaces: ideally hygienic, safe, with nutritious food in the fridge, and connected online.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But many students lacked access to either or both the physical technology and the data plan-on-ramp to the Internet. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

For this annual report, Ordr analyzed security risks across over 500 deployments in healthcare, life sciences, retail, and manufacturing sectors for the 12 months June 2020 through June 2021.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, Omron and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

2020 will be remembered for disruption and dislocation on many fronts; among the major blips in the year will be it remembered as the largest funding year for digital health recorded, according to Rock Health’s report on the 3Q2020 digital health funding. In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some context : my company has been a member of the Consumer Technology Association for many years, and I have attended CES more than a dozen times. Gary’s Book Club featured my HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen at the 2020 CES. FYI, “Gary” is Gary Shapiro….

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American Well

MAY 6, 2021

We are proud to announce that our C500 telemedicine cart has won the “Best Virtual Care Solution” award from MedTech Breakthrough , an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global health and medical technology market. Worry-Free Fleet Monitoring.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. Consolidation will continue industry wide. More healthcare entities will continue to merge together.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Additionally, health data being the ‘holy grail,’ the analytics solutions are considered the first foundational step to catalyze complementing technology promises leveraging healthcare data (e.g., billion in the United States by the end of 2020. “The artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain).”.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

We are far from there this new month of September 2020, six months into the pandemic. Getting the data and technology aspects right will be one key to nailing the pandemic — but that will also require trust and cooperation.

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