Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. This month, a paper on the digital determinants of health was published in PLOS Digital Health.

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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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. On average, U.S. On average, U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The last chart comes out of the GWI paper, detailing consumers’ developing their own “health toolkits” for both mental and physical health. ” That goes for access to tele-mental health care services, too, able to scale distance, convenience, access, and taboos that many consumers face in their care journeys.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The new report on Connected Wellness from PYMNTS and Care Credit profiles American health consumers’ use of digital tools for health care promotion and disease prevention. The bottom-line here is that the most connected 10% of consumers were 1.65 That represents 148 million U.S. More granularly, 15.7%

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

I noted the Yin-and-Yang-and the Blur of this health data ecosystem in 2013 when I attended CES, HIMSS and South-by-Southwest in a matter of weeks, kicking tires on digital health developments at all three events. By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5

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Connected Health Initiative

MAY 12, 2023

Washington, DC —The Connected Health Initiative conducted a national poll of Americans asking how they wear, share, and pay for their wearable devices. Of those Americans using a wearable, a majority of them track their exercise and fitness (86 percent), sleep (58 percent), and weight (51 percent).

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

In a breakthrough study, Hopelab and the Well Being Trust have sponsored the first deep-dive into the many dimensions of young people, their relationship with social media, and depression in Digital Health Practices, Social Media Use, and Mental Well-Being Among Teens and Young Adults in the U.S. ,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Next think about e-commerce: so many health consumers and patients depended on delivery of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, supplements, and durable medical supplies to self-care at home. Digital therapeutics, “new ways to manage health conditions;” and, Fitness tech.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Chilmark Research

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The Connected Health Conference and its predecessor events, the Partners HealthCare’s Connected Health Symposium and the Personal Connected Health Alliance’s Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event), aim to frame digital health advancements in the context of improving clinical care delivery as well as personal engagement.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Use of smartwatches for health tracking is highest among Millennials, and for smartphones-only among Gen Z consumers. Furthermore, 27% of people told Kantar that a fitness or exercise app made the biggest impact on their emotional health, shown in the last chart.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

Technology can help support these modifiable behaviors that can help us re-shape our life-long health… some with the support of technologies we can find at #CES2023 in and beyond the digital health exhibition space. At CES 2023, Valencell announced a cuff-less blood pressure monitor via finger-measurement.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Dean Ornish’s research has proven patients diagnosed with heart disease can reverse cardiac damage through adopting several behavior changes: exercise, a low-fat diet, On smoking cessation, stress management, and group support. Exercising regularly. Eating a healthy diet. cartons of cigarettes costs in the U.S. Reducing stress.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

As #CES2019 kicks off in Las Vegas with today’s first Media Day, the Consumer Technology Association presented its forecast on the 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 — and they all play into health, wellness, and medical care. Digital Health Tech Empowers Patients. Envisioning the Smart Home of the Future.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

Family and friends dropped from 5th place to seventh, product labels fell from 7th to 8th place in trust, and Fitness trainers or coaches declined from 8th place to 10th — perhaps a sign that we were less dependent on the traditional in-person fitness trainer in the physically-distanced pandemic compared with our 2020 normal exercise routines.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Less than one-half of people use an app or wearable to manage or improve a health issue such as stress/anxiety, sleep, fitness/exercise, eating/nutrition, or blood pressure or heart rate. health consumers would eventually morph into health citizens, owning and not just renting our health. filtration systems).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

In thinking holistically about effective management of chronic conditions through self-care of patients partnering with providers, health plans, and other organizations, we can imagine the ecosystem even more broadly through: Nutrition and food with grocery stores and pharmacies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the first six months of the pandemic, I collected all kinds of data about how consumers’ behaviors were adapting to the repurposing of homes for living, working, educating, praying, cooking and baking (sourdough breads posted on Pinterest), exercising, and socializing….all,

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

.” One of the side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was the digital transformation of people — using Zoom for work, going to school from home via Internet connection, attending prayer services to connect with faith communities, taking exercise classes at home in groups, virtually — via tele-exercise whether via the Y, Orangetheory, (..)

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Digital Health Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Jim Joyce, Co-founder and CEO of HealthBeacon, on navigating the digital health market. We’ve opened up a Boston office and we’re trying to create connectivity of the team and the brand into Boston and into the connected health system here. Digital Health Today would not be possible without our valuable partners.

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Digital Health Today

AUGUST 16, 2019

The result of these technologies has ushered in a new sense of personal accountability: since individuals can now easily access personal performance metrics regarding exercise and diet, they are more likely to regularly make conscious decisions with this data in mind. New Attitudes Toward Health. Click here to Leave a Review.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2022

Figure 12 from the report quantifies these data findings from the survey, telling us the most popular ways to use smartwatches and fitness trackers for health are to count steps per day, to monitor pulse rate, to track calories and nutrition, to watch heart health (ECG) and sleep quality, and to provide reminders and nudges to exercise and move.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

It then follows that older people with good health habits less likely said they felt isolated or lacked companionship. Those good health habits included eating a healthy diet, getting exercise, and more frequently enjoying sufficient sleep.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 24, 2020

But some of them can be explained by lifestyle behavior and the personal environment of the patient; such as an unbalanced diet, lack of exercising, poor work/life balance, high stress levels, and so on. With the majority of the world population in home isolation or complete lockdown the adoption of digital solutions need to be fast tracked.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the healthcare industry is rapidly adopting connected health technology. Let us talk about connected health’s conceptual model, some popular examples of devices, and their applications in actual clinical practice. What is the Connected Health Model?

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Waracle

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, we saw an explosion of innovation across the digital health landscape. Digital health and healthcare innovation is a really hot ticket for capital flows at this precise moment. Whether it is through patient engagement, therapeutics, diagnostics, connected health or software-as-a-medical-device.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. Read more.

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Chilmark Research

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Apple’s announcement will bring digital health closer into the mainstream, but by how much remains to be seen. Fitness tracks three different metrics (sitting vs standing, movement, exercise), while Workout enables setting specific goals for exercise. The low hanging fruit for healthcare here is in the employer market.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

It’s also interesting to see people re-defining what constitutes “exercise” and fitness routines: say, sex and household chores (with over 70% of consumers calling each of these activities workouts. Sidebar: cozy cardio was popularized on (of course) TikTok by Hope Zuckerbrow.

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