Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. This week, digital health will span from head to toe, from body (outside and in) to the home and connected car.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Among the key findings, Software Advice learned that, 9 in 10 patients (again, health-engaged wearable tech-adopters) were interested in sharing data from their devices with their physicians. This proportion of folks interested in sharing their wearable health data grew from 56% in 2021 to 91% in 2023.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts.

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JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). The next chapter in HealthConsuming is called “Digital Health – Wearable, Shareable, Virtual.” I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As important as health became to humans at the base of our Hierachies of Needs , in the U.S., health care industries fell to their lowest consumer satisfaction scores in two decades, we learn in the latest evaluation by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index report.

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JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Now, Walgreens is enabling cancer patients to say, “Hello, Jasper.”. Jasper launched just over one year ago , spinning out of 7wireVentures and Redesign Health.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. Emergency room experience stayed at an index of a (low) 66.

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APRIL 21, 2021

The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Kocher, a physician who is a venture capitalist, and Chigurupati, head of member experience at Devoted Health, explain the misaligned incentives that impede progress in reducing administrative spending. This last graphic from the McKinsey report illustrates the pain points for patients engaging with payers’ call centers.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S.

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MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? health citizens.

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MARCH 17, 2021

is much higher now, in March 2021, affecting Black and Latinx young people disproportionately. ” And here is another mainstream media take on Melissa’s “secret battle with depression” in People magazine, 22nd March 2021. Compare that to 36% of young people who did not have COVID-19 touch their family.

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MARCH 1, 2022

consumers’ demand for voice assistants’ support in health care. of people had used a voice assistant for their health, rising to 21.0% Furthermore, interest among people wanting to use voice tech in their health care rose from 51.9% Voicebot.ai Note that in 2019, 7.5% in 2019 to 56.0%

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JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, we saw an explosion of innovation across the digital health landscape. As we say a fond farewell to an extremely tough first quarter 2021, we reflect on the potential innovation that is still to come. Digital health and healthcare innovation is a really hot ticket for capital flows at this precise moment.

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JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Ochsner Mobile O Bar Over five years ago, Ochsner Health launched their O Bar (Apple genius-like concept) to support patients getting started with digital health tools. Today, Ochsner has nine physical O Bars located in the bottom floor of their health centers and one mobile O Bar.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting. Take George and Audrey.

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MAY 17, 2021

In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery. Health equity, and. We also saw the use of blockchain, AI and cognitive computing, smartphones, neural networks, among other tools in the digital health toolkit.

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