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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

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. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

consumers), followed by exercise, sleep, weight, nutrition, and then new things like medication, mental health, mood, meditation, and blood sugar all attracting at least 1 in 5 new health tracking people. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%. consumers likely to use an FDA-approved health tracking tool.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

See that connected sports and fitness equipment grew by 7 percentage points in U.S. Another important data point in this consumer-tech environmental analysis is that more people are open to artificial intelligence baked into the tasks of daily living, shown in the third chart. households owning this form of technology.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

Health Populi

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

This speaks from the demand side of health care providers and executives, the perfect yang to the Catalyst 2.0 “yin” survey report. and intriguingly, “Health care professionals seem most excited about adopting consumer technologies that we already use.”

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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

Health Populi

I’ll focus on #1, although mindfulness and mental health play into every single one of the eight other trends in the GWI line-up. ” A lot, as it turns out, based on Beth McGroarty’s analysis of the entertainment sector’s “jump into wellness.” Money out loud (on financial wellness).

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Health Populi

To effectively personalize health care, Deloitte expects that health care providers will partner with technology companies to assess large pools of patient data (e.g., Underpinning consumerization is patients-as-payors’ financial burden of medical costs – which Deloitte recognizes at the top of its consumerization analysis.