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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

CEO (and American Well founder) Dr. Roy Schoenberg noted that the pioneering telehealth company, founded in 2006, rebranded itself on March 9 as Amwell. As the newly published vision states: “No longer is telehealth merely a virtual urgent care service. J2Global – from the telehealth sublime to the reality of fax. Learn more.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. and the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” here in Health Populi. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a given -- Voice First will be even more pervasive in 2020. Speech recognition, for example, will penetrate 80% of mobile devices by 2020. The goal of this project is to complete interviews in Q4 and publish the report in early Q1 2020. Thanks in advance for your help and thoughts.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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InTouch Health

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Several states are launching school-based telehealth programs with the goal to increase student access to healthcare services. Over the last couple of years, twelve states have designated schools as an approved patient setting for receiving telehealth services. The Benefits of School-Based Telehealth.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

fielded between September and November 2020. 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. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 5, 2023

The growth of the digital self-management market is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, the rising demand for personalized healthcare, and the growing adoption of mobile health (mHealth) technologies. billion in 2020. billion in funding, up from $8.9

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

The first four most-trusted sources for health information in 2021 remained the same short-list from 2020: doctors in-person, pharmacists, nutritionists and dieticians, and government or NGOs. adults told Euromonitor they were very or extremely comfortable receiving medical advice online, up from about 35% in 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. In 2020, telehealth (and its other prefixes or monikers) is an accepted service with reimbursement codes. Do these visits result in recommendations for telehealth? category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Note the timing of this publication: the authors submitted the manuscript to Nature on 19th March 2020… just eight days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic.

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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

MAY 6, 2020

Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture. our homes have been morphing into our workplaces and self-care places.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 23, 2023

While approximately 20% of US adults experienced mental illness in 2020, only 46% received treatment (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, 2021 ). Barriers to accessing behavioral care are decreasing with telehealth, while the need for treatment is increasing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2009, the market was forecast to be $20 billion by 2020. . category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , aging in place , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. All of that has changed by 2019.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2020

Entrepreneur identified five innovations that will dominate CES 2020, and I see health/care in all of them: wearable AR/VR, autonomous farming, IoT in the kitchen, personal translators, and remote health monitoring. Forbes ran a column on CES 2020 discussing AI in hearing and vision.

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Waracle

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2020, the competitive advantage for any company, regardless of their vertical is technology. Developing digital health products and innovating within a business can reinvigorate a company, disrupt the market and create new leaders. .

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

The research was conducted among 335 respondents, which included 182 digital health companies polled between November 2020 and March 2021. and sponsored by WIPFLI. As more healthcare (beyond wellness and fitness) moves to peoples’ homes, houses morph into health hubs.

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Ortholive

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Though the terms e-health, m-health , and telehealth are often interchanged for telemedicine, the deliverable is always the connection and interaction between patient and caregiver in a digital medium. Telemedicine, which uses the Internet to connect patients and providers, is growing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

The world is spinning from the events of March 2020. It’s almost quaint to look at where the month began – publishing the 2020 Market Overview of Technology for Aging. Telehealth is suddenly as critical as it always should have been. The 2020 Market Overview of Technology for Aging is now online.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

CES 2020 – walking the land of the new. That was CES 2020. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , robotics , IoT and home monitoring , hearables/hearing technology , digital health. Learn more at Zibrio.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

Excerpt from Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 report published in January 2020.]. . category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. The healthcare industry should look at these efforts as signals for future healthcare voice assistant interoperability. .

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

Some telehealth flexibilities that were allowed under the PHE are also staying in effect, at least until the end of 2024. Digital TeleHealth Delivery Expansion: The use of digital health expanded dramatically from 2020 to 2022 as social distancing practices were adopted and telehealth options became more widely available.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Each month we re-visit some of the most recent announcements, news and events in the telehealth. A Bright Future for EHRs and Telehealth. Today, most EHRs and telehealth systems integrate data, transporting patient demographic, financial, medical and visit information back and forth between systems using protocols like HL7.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

billion in the United States by the end of 2020. “The Traditionally, lack of formal reimbursement processes is actually a deterrent to the uptake of these—wearables, telehealth etc. artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain).”.

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