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JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. On average, consumers globally subscribe to eight online services.

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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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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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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.”. These data came from a JAMA Oncology article published in April 2021).

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JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy?

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JULY 28, 2020

One of the long-time exhibitors at CES is Withings, who once again showed off a host of new-new things for personal health and wellness at CES 2020. Well-known for its direct-to-consumer connected health devices in the forms of weight scales and fitness watches, Withings announced focused on sleep and heart health in its CES 2020 launches.

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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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AUGUST 18, 2020

There is desperation, and there is hope to re-imagine and re-build a health care system and, indeed, a larger ecosystem that bolsters health for all as we look beyond the pandemic and toward 2021.

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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). We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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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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APRIL 21, 2021

And with patients’ collective exposure to and experience with virtual care in 2020, demand for these services is persisting in and beyond 2021. .” The coronavirus and #StayHome mandates were the wild card that changed every normal forecast for telehealth utilization in 2020.

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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.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

The consequences of cyber risks can be incredibly severe as healthcare data is particularly personal and sensitive," said Kelly Rozumalski, secure connected health director at Booz Allen, in a statement to Healthcare IT News. "Cybersecurity isn’t always a priority when it comes to healthcare, but it should be.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection. These barriers are an underlying theme in CTA’s paper on advancing health equity through technology, sponsored by CTA and the App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (ACT).

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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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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JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Kroger Health (part of the Kroger food chain) has several partnerships with Medicare Advantage plans, including Select Health (part of Intermountain Health) and Priority Health in Michigan , and began to work with Anthem (now Elevance) in 2021. How Instacart and Mom’s Meals are addressing food-as-medicine.

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JUNE 6, 2023

A just-breaking report from the CDC explores the demographics of patients between 18 and 64 years of age (that is, not children and not folks of Medicare-age) who avoid prescription drugs due to cost, in Characteristics of Adults Age 18-64 Who Did Not Take Medication as Prescribed to Reduce Costs: United States, 2021.

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MARCH 2, 2021

Local hospitals and health systems — that is, “my” and “our” health care in our neighborhoods and ZIP codes — continue to own the data stewardship equity relationship with patients. Tech companies are much better capitalized than health systems.

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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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DECEMBER 7, 2020

The hope, of course, is that the galvanizing technology innovations that have emerged from the stress and disruption of the past year will be foundational to a better, brighter world in 2021 and beyond. Department of Health and Human Services published the long-awaited interoperability final rules from CMS and ONC.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences).

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MAY 25, 2021

health citizens. Some national health plans have already looked to acquire telehealth companies and embed virtual care into their models. Look, too, to the upcoming annual 2021 ATA Conference and Expo that will bring current and futures thinking to attendees every week in June.

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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. Revolutionising patient experience. billion between January & March! What’s not to like!

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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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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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OCTOBER 24, 2022

"We ultimately chose Rimidi because their clinical management platform integrates with cellular-enabled connected blood pressure cuffs, which meant the only ask of our patients was to put on the cuff and press a single button and the data would come to us regardless of their WiFi, broadband, etc.," " she explained.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

” Ochsner has plans to grow their digital medicine programs in 2021. Our metrics of success are control measures for the disease (i.e. better blood pressure control, better diabetes control, etc.).”

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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. Even a few students attended, a growing trend as academia recognizes the shortage of workers trained to solve thorny problems of the world.

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MARCH 2, 2022

Peloton, for connected fitness. Spotify, for health information as well as mis-information. Android, for connectivity. Fitbit, for connected health innovation. TED, for health story inspiration. Calm, for mental health and wellbeing. Instant Pot, for healthy cooking at home.

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