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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
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. 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.
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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 4, 2021
The following 10 predictions that we have made for the global healthcare will define new ways of rethinking business and growth opportunities in 2021, and will help determine the future direction of the industry. By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. billion by the end of 2021.
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Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021
Health Populi
JANUARY 13, 2021
Yoga classes, concerts and weddings were streamed via Zoom,” Fjord Trends 2021 from Accenture Interactive observes. Fjord points out that health care is no longer “something that happens to people,” but instead is a pursuit where people are playing a more active role.
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Roundup: Indonesia issues Singapore's HealthCerts, new telemedicine platforms go live in India and more briefs
Mobi Health News
JULY 23, 2021
Also, a Taiwanese mobile health company sponsors the COVID-19 testing of the Tour de France 2021 winning team.
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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care
Health Populi
MAY 3, 2021
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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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time
Health Populi
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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Quick, Accessible, Inexpensive Health Care – A Retail Health Update from Amazon and Dollar General
Health Populi
JANUARY 24, 2023
” These two programs come from outside of the legacy health care system of so-called incumbents — hospitals, health systems, health insurance — leveraging two brand-names beloved to many consumers for convenience, price transparency, and sheer cost. Right outside the store.”
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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2021
Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.”
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Global Healthcare Analytics Strategic Business Report 2023: Market to Surpass $200 Billion by 2030
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Global competitiveness and key competitor percentage market shares Market presence across multiple geographies – Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial MARKET OVERVIEW Impact of Covid-19 and a Looming Global Recession Year 2021 in Review and Near Term Outlook World Economic Growth Projections (Real GDP, Annual % Change) for 2020 through 2023 COVID-19 Broadens (..)
Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive
Health Populi
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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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2022
While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine.
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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast
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. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.
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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2021
Furthermore, more LGBTQ+ younger people sought health information online compared with others, as well as used mobile health apps, connected with providers online, and sought to connect with other people “like me” online. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.
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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The power of Digital Health in dietary education for chronic conditions
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
In this context, digital health emerges as a catalyst for revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services.
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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care
Health Populi
JANUARY 4, 2022
To illustrate this, note that consumer-subscribers of subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) grew by millions in 2021, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and AppleTV all expanding their membership rosters. Connected wellness and lifestyle services also grew in subscriber bases in 2021 in the U.S. That’s on average.
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Uniguest Expands Presence and Capabilities in Healthcare through Acquisition of pCare
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The pCare open platform integrates with existing EHR/EMR systems, patient portals, and mobile health applications to connect patients, families, and caregivers. About pCare pCare’s interactive patient experience solution helps healthcare providers engage, educate, and entertain patients across the care continuum.
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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM
Health Populi
JANUARY 24, 2022
Their research shows growing demand for connected solutions for air quality, telehealth, independent living solutions, and other health-adjacent services: Consumer usage of telehealth services increased from 15 percent in Q2 2019 to 64 percent in 2021. 55 percent of U.S.
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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2022
” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.
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How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic
Health Populi
APRIL 16, 2021
So it makes sense that the apparel category whose brand equity grew most between 2020 and 2021 was footwear, announced in the Brand Finance Apparel 50. In the COVID-19 pandemic era of retail and consumers, it’s useful to consider Brand Finance’s findings in terms of where people found value in the face of the public health crisis.
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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2021
This trend was already in motion at the start of 2020, after which the public health crisis raised patients-as-consumers’ awareness and value of hygiene, food-for-immunity, and physical distancing. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S.
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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 19, 2022
Health systems can take a number of steps toward ensuring the benefits of virtual care are fully realized, they said, including pushing for expanded broadband access and reimbursement incentives. A RAND study from March 2021 found that overall, pandemic-era telehealth grew most in wealthy and metro areas. THE LARGER TREND.
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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”
Health Populi
JUNE 16, 2021
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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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns
Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.
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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency. About 1 in 2 people said that the process of shopping for health care prompted them to change their health care provider.
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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health
Health Populi
JULY 28, 2020
CTA’s new Public Health Technology Initiative promises to be an important, impactful effort as a public-private partnership. As a postscript, we learned yesterday that CES 2021 will be an all-virtual conference — a sound, science-based decision for this event which is, increasingly, baked with health.
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Together is the first app to use generative AI to make cumbersome healthcare tasks “magically easy”
Digital Health Global
JUNE 20, 2023
About Together by Renee Together by Renee was founded in 2021 by veteran health-tech entrepreneurs Nick Desai and Dr. Renee Dua – the husband-wife team that created doctor house-call industry leader Heal in 2014. Together by Renee has been doing R&D on Together for 18 months to understand real aging Americans and their needs.
Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health
Health Populi
APRIL 5, 2021
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 two key risks were client complaints due to misrepresentation, and cyber-attack or system failure. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.
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Digital self-management emerging as a new high growth HealthTech sub-sector in 2024
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. In 2021, the global digital self-management market received a total of $12.9
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In the time of CES 2022 -- advice to tech firms about older adults
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 6, 2022
It is extracted from the Technology for Aging 2022 Market Overview, to be posted following CES, and including 30 offerings that were not in the 2021 version. The 2021 FCC broadband progress report revealed 19 million Americans lack high speed Internet access, and even if it were available, 25% of the 65+ never go online. The advice:
New Study of Mindfulness Apps & Online Programs
Telebehavioral Health Institute
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
In 2021 alone, 16,581 publications on mindfulness were published in scientific journals. 2021 ; Linardon, 2020 ; Sevilla-Llewellyn-Jones et al., Best practices of mobile health in clinical care: The development and evaluation of a competency-based provider training program. Why Focus on Workers? Ciulla, R. Berthod, J.,
The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
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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Lessons Learned from 2020 Provide a Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption
Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare
JUNE 22, 2021
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]While thinking about my keynote address at the 2021 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference, I kept coming back to Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel-prize-winning theory (his book is called Thinking Fast and Slow).
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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2021
That ethos now pertains to post-pandemic health consumers’ growing use of wearable tech, remote health monitoring, and mobile apps for self-care and chronic condition management. adults in late September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.
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The Different Types of Telehealth
iSALUS Healthcare
AUGUST 15, 2018
billion by 2021, growing at a compound annual rate of 27.5%. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Often used for seniors or in senior living areas, remote patient monitoring is the collection of a patient’s health data from a patient or resident in one location that is then electronically sent to a healthcare professional (provider, nurse, etc.)
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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Expect MDLive’s IPO in 2021. Note consumers’ embrace of tele-mental health, too, in the pandemic that CTA quantified. During the crisis, Ginger, the behavioral health provider, raised $50 million of funding, and Brightline, which provides behavioral health services in pediatrics, scored $20 million in a Series A round.
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What are the implications of Babyl Rwanda's closure for the future of Digital Health in Rwanda?
Lloyd Price
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Electronic health records (EHRs): The Rwandan government has implemented a national EHR system that allows healthcare providers to access patient records electronically. This has improved the coordination of care and made it easier for patients to track their own health information.
COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling
Health Populi
MAY 12, 2021
“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI.
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Digital Health Academic Journals
Digital Health Hub
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Last Update: January 27, 2023 Number Journal Name Impact Factor (2021) Publishing Options Publisher Country G1 The Lancet Digital Health 36.615 OA Elsevier Ltd. Below is a comprehensive list of over 60 journals (not in any particular order) with details , including whether they support Open Access (OA) or not.
Digital Health Academic Journals
Digital Health Hub
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Number Journal Name Impact Factor (2021) Publishing Options Publisher Country G1 The Lancet Digital Health 36.615 OA Elsevier Ltd. Below is a comprehensive list of over 60 journals (not in any particular order) with details , including whether they support Open Access (OA) or not. The list is best viewed on a computer!
Join us at “Transforming Community Pharmacies in to High Street Clinics”
mHealth Insight
OCTOBER 28, 2018
The Government’s commitment to expand ICP and PHBs to between 50,000 and 100,000 people by March 2021. Topics/Speakers will include: Introduction & Background Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL. Digital enablement in integrated care systems Luke Readman, CIO, Tower Hamlets CCG.
5 Niche Telemedicine Specialties That Might Surprise You
Enzyme Health
MARCH 13, 2019
alone is predicted to hit more than $40 billion by 2021. Opportunities for telemedicine roles are exploding in all areas of healthcare, allowing specialists to join GPs, mental health providers, and urgent care practitioners in this flexible medical practice. The telemedicine industry in the U.S.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020
Health Populi
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Within the mega-deal trend, Rock Health pointed to three facets of the go-go digital health investment climate: expanding virtual care, research and development digital transformation, and fitness and wellness demand. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.
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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine
Health Populi
JANUARY 28, 2021
GWI identified nine major wellness trends for 2021: Hollywood and the entertainment industries jumping into wellness. The future of immune health. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. ” The wellness category — and particularly, the ability to scale mental health services via digital technology — is promising.
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