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Consumers Continue to Spend on Technology, Seeking “A Happy, Healthy Connected Life”

Health Populi

consumers will keep spending on digital stuff at about the same level as they did in 2022, Deloitte found that households have actually pared down the number of devices they had last year. For the survey, Deloitte polled 2,018 U.S. adults in the second quarter of 2023. While 2 in 3 U.S. Why the “device pruning?”

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Best Mental Health Apps: Using the “APA App Evaluation Model”

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Mental health clients are increasingly using their smartphones to access mental health tools. Identifying the best mental health apps is key to ensuring that clients utilize online tools that align with ethical and professional standards and evidence-based approaches. Finding the Best Mental Health Apps.

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Bonus Features – September 18, 2022 – HIMSS and WHO to collaborate on digital health, inpatient admissions for pediatric mental health up 60% since 2016, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Research from payment and analytics company Clarify Health found that mental health utilization for pediatrics has increased significantly since 2016. Inpatient admissions for mental health increased 60% from 2016 to 2021, while ED admissions increased 20%.

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Weekly Roundup – November 26, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

The Top Innovations at HLTH 2022. Not surprisingly, cumbersome EHRs and interoperability challenges make medication reconciliation difficult , which is why continuous updates to drug data and actionable insights are so important. Mental health provider SonderMind acquired Total Brain , a neuroscience company.

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CB Insights Digital Health 150 Report 2022

Digital Health Wire

That category was followed by interoperability & data (12%), virtual care (11%), and patient engagement (11%). Mental health momentum: Although the treatment indications took some time to sort out manually, we counted 24 startups building mental health solutions, a big step up from the 10 that were included last year.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

Health Populi

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design. The more health sensors on a smartwatch, the less multi-modal a consumer has to be.