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

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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Kantar polled 10,000 online consumers in ten countries to gain perspectives on health citizens’ physical and emotional health and the role of technology to bolster (or diminish) well-being. The nations surveyed included Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US.

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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

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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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Almost overnight, lines blurred between consumers’ physical and digital worlds, and home became the headquarters for virtual working, learning, fitness, health care, shopping, socializing, and entertaining.” consumers in the first quarter of 2022.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging surveyed some 2,000 U.S. adults age 50–80 in October 2018, assessing older peoples’ health, health behaviors, experiences and feelings related to companionship and social isolation.

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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 The survey was fielded in December of 2007 with a population of 907 adults aged 65-98 (the mean age was 74). This population is rarely surveyed today, despite the growing lifespan of the 65+.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

health consumers’ Spring 2024 Wellness Trends published March 27th. Once you review the Peloton Spring report, and add in the company’s 2023 Fitness Journey research (analyzing health consumer survey data fielded in August and September ’23), you’ll appreciate the fact that the population of people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

The top-line is that 60% of Americans would be uncomfortable with [their health] provider relying on AI in their own care, found in a consumer poll fielded in December 2022 among over11,000 U.S. Pew Research Center has published several analyses based on the data collected in the December 2022 consumer survey.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. teens and young adults say they have gone online to try to find people with health conditions similar to their own and 61% say they have read, listened to, or watched other people share about their health experiences online.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Most Millennials don’t see the value of life insurance, a Life Happens + LIMRA survey found. That’s a Millennial value proposition at work. And don’t forget that Amazon Prime membership. The John Hancock announcement coincided with one from Fitbit, the dominant fitness wearable supplier which helped to define the category.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

One in five people over 65 feel lonely every single day , GreatCall found in a survey conducted among older Americans and featured in the report, Fighting Social Isolation Among Older Adults. GreatCall conducted a survey among seniors to gauge their perspectives on personal health issues, loneliness, and the use of technology.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

My focus is all-health, all-the-time, so I’m weaving the connections between connected cars, home appliances, telecoms, and Big Tech who put on the Ritz and glitz today and tomorrow for the press. Digital health at CES will grow 25% since last year in terms of exhibitors and attendees focused on the category.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Worries about health care costs, now crossing over into higher-earning households, underpins the growth of consumerism. Digital health literacy, greater adoption of wearable tech and tracking apps, FDA-cleared devices that measure medical metrics like heart function, and people going online to sign up for health insurance.

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