Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

I’ll also be exploring innovations in smart kitchens and appliances, ag-tech ( last year’s John Deere showed inspiring leadership in light of growing food insecurity), and personalized food futures at CES 2024.

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Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy 203

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

CTA looked at ten categories of consumer tech for the research: mobile devices, video products, audio products, computing devices, video gaming, smart homes, wearable tech, automotive tech, health & wellness, and lifestyle tech. The poll was conducted among 2,630 U.S. adults 18 and over in April and May 2022.

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Connected Health Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology 308

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2023

But what are the challenges of deploying this promising tech with older people keen to be independent at home? The Health at Home Market Map here was featured in 7Wire Ventures’ write-up on our homes as our medical homes, and inventories some of the key categories of digital technologies for care in consumers’ residences.

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Digital Health Telehealth 296

Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

The report’s focus is on the convergence of mental and behavioral health with technology, describing the range of mental wellness tech available in the market. How do people become aware of mental wellness tech? This week, digital health will span from head to toe, from body (outside and in) to the home and connected car.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

consumers (below smartphones, portable charters, home video games and other tech’s), with 63% of those people intending to buy a smartwatch repeat purchasers. Purchase intent for two other forms of wearable tech, VR and AR headsets, will be 14% and 12%, respectively, among households in 2021, half of whom will be repeat purchasers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

AARP is in fact a very visible stakeholder in the 2023 CES, collaborating on the AgeTech content track at the tech conference. The biggest, most visible category here is focusing on blood pressure , which has been a growing digital health focus expanding at CES annually over the past decade. In the U.S.

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Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology Patient Experience 261

Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Most people over 70 years of age recognize technology’s role in supporting peoples’ health, we learn from a new report on 2024 Tech Trends and Adults 50+ from AARP. people 50+ owning a device in the category. Entering 2024, there appears to be less a digital divide in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

For the forecast, CTA looked at various spending categories, including gaming, automotive and transportation tech, video and audio streaming, consumer electronics (like big-screen TVs), and fitness and health devices. In 2023, Steve advised us to keep our eyes on six key trends: Enterprise tech. Metaverse and Web 3.0

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Connected Health Telehealth Mobile Health Digital Health 170

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. “Space Tech?” ” you might wonder.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Telehealth Connected Health 436

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2023

Consumer-facing health-tech categories won’t be spared, we learn in the 2023 U.S. adults 18 and over in April 2023 for this study, exploring 10 technology product categories covering 80+ products. In 2023, U.S. consumers’ purchases of technology in their households will contract this year. million versus 107.9

Connected Health 156

Connected Health Digital Health Telehealth 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) We’re still (mostly) talking about tech in the home to help family caregivers. Into this picture, what tech can be somewhat helpful? category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living In what year?

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

For digital health adoption, where we live in terms of urban, suburban, or rural environment impacts our use of real-time telemedicine, wearable tech ownership, and digital health tracking. People living in rural areas were least likely to use digital health techs. Urban dwellers in the U.S. adults 18 and over in August 2021.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Public Health Telehealth 193

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Ironically, it was not the big tech news of the month – eclipsed by an OpenAI introduction that had appeared in November, but was suddenly noticed – first in December in the media. Occasionally some tech really is NEW! Sites are emerging that aggregate and update ChatGPT prompts by category. Stay tuned.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2024

Ironically, the predicted enabling tech exists. With the boom in scam innovation , government initiatives and new tech emerges regularly to stop or eliminate scamming of seniors. Instead, you need considerable tech skills or more likely an outside consultant. But how useful, easy to deploy or personalize?

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Medicare 140

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Of the $401 billion that will flow through retailers for consumer technology products, many of the fastest-emerging categories will play a role as platforms for health and medical care at home and in wearable tech. This is my tea-leaf read from reviewing the projections in the report, U.S.

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Digital Health mHealth Mobile Health Mental health 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2024

As interviews proceed for the upcoming report, The Future of the Tech User Experience, all agree. And it is not just tech – consider the impenetrable smart TV interface, the microwave button-display combination, the new car that lacks readable warning lights and other user interface issues. The decline of design.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

There is quite a bit of chatter in long-term care publications about the need for more technology use, and providers are asked to offer best examples of tech use to win an award (separate categories for senior living, home care, and skilled nursing) at the upcoming Leading Age event in October. Who helps the resident with tech?

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Virtual health is the broad umbrella term used to encompass techs and tools that enable health care to remotely engage and monitor people across the health care ecosystem, shown in Figure 1 here from the report. There are many facility-focused solutions for long-term care and correctional facilities, and eConsult tech platforms.

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Telehealth Public Health Life Science Primary Care 380

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rather, it suggested that while form factors are changing (from pendant to smart watch to home sensor technology), the shortage of labor in the caregiving market means that tech to help 66 million caregivers matters more than ever. Tech for quality of life – aging or not? And where does caregiver tech fit?

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

For the 2024 Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth will accept proposals in the following categories: Hardware Accelerated AI, Generative AI, Tech Led Innovations, Mobile Health Apps, Healthcare Accessibility, and Social Change Solutions. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. “The

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EHR healthcare technology Digital Health Mobile Health 88

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Underneath these statistics, people with more education and income are more comfortable sharing all categories of personal information with a higher level of trust with companies handling that data. The Mercury News and East Bay Times editorial boards coined this the continuation of a “tech trust death spiral.”

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Digital Health Public Health Connected Health Health Data 296

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The 2024 survey is out – some might say it is positive about tech adoption. Older adults (age 50+) own nearly every tech owned by those age 18-49. The cynical among us might say that some tech change (like the 3G to 5G cutover) forced smartphone adoption. Discussions of AI makes older adults skeptical.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. These can be heavy lifts in terms of data requirements for those applications in the “Massive IoT” category.

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Digital Health Mental health Interoperability Telemedicine 357

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Has the tech user experience substantially improved? For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future. Or has the tech user experience also deteriorated? Today there are numerous programs to subsidize access, and smartphone penetration has exceeded 92%.

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JULY 7, 2020

The pace of digital health investments quickened in the first half of 2020, based on Rock Health’s look at health-tech financing in mid-year. Note that investment in digital behavioral health ventures for the first half of 2020 was greater than total investment in the category for the entire 2019 year. Fitness and wellness.

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Digital Health Psychiatry Telehealth Mental health 296

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the ‘connected’ home, note trouble and aggravation. And other phone sellers – like Verizon and AT&T , for example, offer very little support in the store past initial device setup, with primary tech support via phone – or as with Sprint, via a moderated online community.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category). Dx/Tools, where early-stage investment set records in 2022 notwithstanding declines for some of the sub-categories (R&D tools investments especially), and. and health justice for all health citizens?

Digital Health 156

Digital Health Mental health Primary Care Telemedicine 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Tech tools offer training and concierge-like assistance. Actual care coordination will become a reality with appropriate tech enablement. Tech information from sensors and other real-time remote monitoring will serve as the backbone of that transition, supported by offerings like CareDaily , Lifeguard Health and Caspar.ai.

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Nursing EMR Healthcare Innovation Telehealth 138

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

One-half of 50+ Americans use a tablet, and 17% own wearable tech. The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019.

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HIPAA Health Data Digital Health Health Information 422

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2024

The purpose of the document, however, is to aggregate and review trends from 2023 that shape 2024, technology changes that matter, and offer, by category, a sampling of products, services, and sites of relevance to the older adult market. In addition, 30 entrants have been added to the index of companies.

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Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tech for all ages is remaining stubbornly difficult to use, whether it is the frequency of upgrades, the multiple steps to authenticate that the user is not a robot (including checking a box that one is not a robot! But the tech has changed – now sensors offer non-wearable, Wi-Fi and room-based fall detection (even in a steam shower).

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Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 131

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In the 100 emerging trends across ten categories, the future is clearly health-driven, according to the tea-leaf readers at JWT.a. Tech and innovation. Health (as a category itself). As an example of the trend, JWT talks about tech-enabled fertility programs in the hands of consumers. China health tech. Lifestyle.

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Mental health Patient Experience 225

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: On a recent walk through Manhattan, I happened upon this ad in a bus stop kiosk promoting the wearable fitness tech products sold at Macy’s. The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others. “Macy’s?” ” you ask.

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Digital Health Medicare Telehealth healthcare technology 195

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI. And as with all Gartner hype cycles and notable tech trends, even though execs are interested, most do not have an AI strategy. Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tech user experience experts focus on everyone except older adults. But there’s a problem: AARP’s tech trends survey from 2024 and their 2023 guidance from AARP on inclusive design practices, it’s clear and as the AARP report notes, “No one prefers badly designed, over-complicated products.” Is the user experience deteriorating?

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Read more Bright spots remain in digital health funding According to PitchBook, the categories receiving the most funding this year are teletherapy and behavioral health as well as care coordination and navigation. Wonder no more. Read more Generative AI alters cloud architecture Adding generative AI systems?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What it means – a tech opportunity. The 2024 Market Overview Technology for Aging presents the current demographics, describes the opportunity, the appropriate product categories and the current in-market offerings to mitigate these and many other issues. Check it out. million 27.2 million 33.3 million 75+ 25.7 million 10.8 million 14.9

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Nursing 69