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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

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Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

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For growth, Beazley learned that 90% of business were planning for growth in 2021, 62% were raising capital, and one-third were innovating new products and services. 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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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

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While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

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In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Looking at the right side of the chart, note the pent-up demand for those who have used digital health tech versus those who would prefer to use them.

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

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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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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

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Nearly one-half of people also said that COVID-19 had influenced the health plan features they seek for 2021 plan selection, with one-third of people spending more time shopping for/researching health plan options.

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10 must-know perspectives on digital transformation for healthcare IT leaders

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Designing an HIT infrastructure for digital transformation “ Re-Thinking the Architecture of Health IT.” The Journal of mHealth. The author also proposes an openEHR, a framework adopted by national organizations in Australia, the UK, and Norwegian countries, as a potential means for creating a connected healthcare ecosystem.