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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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

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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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How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

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Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. In terms of apparel, that value grew faster for footwear than for any other apparel category.

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

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It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID. Diving further into U.S.

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

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

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In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. Physicians are loathe to recommend or prescribe consumer-facing digital health apps and devices that haven’t been proven out with hard data in real people.

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

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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).