article thumbnail

In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves

Health Populi

Driving health tech growth in the forecast are connected health monitoring devices: think blood pressure and blood glucose meters which tie to mobile apps via smartphones. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges. About 1 in 5 U.S.

article thumbnail

How COVID-19 Is Driving More Deaths of Despair

Health Populi

The analysis quantifies the impact of isolation and loneliness combined with the dramatic economic downturn and mass unemployment with the worsening of mental illness and income inequity on the epidemic of Deaths of Despair. Integrate mental health with health care. Demonstrating this sad fact of U.S.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death. The bar chart illustrates the result of the meta-analysis which considered 148 studies on mortality and risk factors.

article thumbnail

Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

Health Populi

Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category). Specifically, oncology was down 32%, cardiovascular declining by 27%, mental health falling 49%, neurology by 51%, and gastroenterology by 33%.

article thumbnail

The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Health Populi

This analysis was based on data generated through McKinsey’s COVID-19 US Consumer Pulse Survey conducted in mid-February 2021 among 2,000+ U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates McKinsey’s findings on U.S. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people.

article thumbnail

Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

Lower income earners face an “uphill battle” when it comes to their mental health, GWI found. times more likely to say they have depression, also facing an under-supply of mental health providers. Furthermore, rural Americans were 1.5

article thumbnail

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.