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Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category). Specifically, oncology was down 32%, cardiovascular declining by 27%, mental health falling 49%, neurology by 51%, and gastroenterology by 33%.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know.

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In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves

Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Driving health tech growth in the forecast are connected health monitoring devices: think blood pressure and blood glucose meters which tie to mobile apps via smartphones. This category will see double-digit growth of 17% in 2022 (estimated) and 14% next year, CTA forecasts, with an average unit price of about $50.

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How Virtual Care is Morphing into “Just” Healthcare – my post in Medecision Liberation

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

The pandemic accelerated many Very Big Deals in digital health venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the re-emergence of SPACs in health care. In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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

Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI. million, with a median of $3.9

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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The Growth of Emerging Consumer Electronics Categories Adds to Digital Health Platforms

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

CTA is annual convener of CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics meet-up.]. and in-vehicle technology — all of which can support health and medical applications beyond commoditized activity tracking devices. Consumer Technology Sales and Forecasts, July 2019 , from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

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What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Depression and Anxiety are Toxic Side Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. These numbers raise questions about peoples’ access to mental health services, particularly among people of color more disproportionately negatively affected by COVID-19: Black and LatinX health citizens.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

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.” The community ethos bolsters social cohesion and mental health.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. Six major themes emerge at #CES2021: digital health, robotics and drones, 5G connectivity, vehicle technology, smart cities, and over all — digital transformation. For the U.S.,

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whether dealing with migraines and mental health, heart conditions or diabetes, orthopedic and sports injury rehab or sleep disorders, #CES2024 will be a major stage for health/care.

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

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. Welcome to #CES2022: where health/care is everywhere.

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The pandemic certainly gave us the gift of knowledge in having to face the ubiquity of mental health in Americans’ overall health and well-being… or lack thereof. billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. Most people in the U.S.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC).

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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Walmart recently opened the second health center, in Calhoun GA, where in the words of Bloomberg, a consumer could book a tele-mental health therapy visit for $1 a minute (that’s $60 for the initial intake session of 60 minutes and $45 for subsequent 45-minute therapy meet-ups).

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic.

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The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

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. For sleep , the ASLEEP exhibit at CES 2023 may win the prize for largest-footprint in the meeting.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. We’ve been SMAC’ed, and Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 believes we’re in a post-digital era ripe with opportunity.

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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Jasper launched just over one year ago , spinning out of 7wireVentures and Redesign Health. Jasper was designed as a digital platform to serve people with cancer, their caregivers and providers. The platform connects patients to the Jasper Care Guides – the high-touch aspect of the service.

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Consumers Focus on Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Self-Care a New Normal?

Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Accenture also quantified that people are using virtual digital health tools more for both physical and mental well-being. ” As more consumers have set up home office spaces and digital capabilities to engage in Zoom meetings, et. our homes have been morphing into our workplaces and self-care places.

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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels.

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

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. This places them on a very short list of connected health developers who have patiently developed clinical-grade health techs designed for the consumer market that have undergone regulatory scrutiny.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. People at Philips are going out of their way to make it happen,” noting “extraordinary efforts” and teams mobilizing in the pandemic to meet the moment. What a difference 90 days makes.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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The Omnichannel Imperative for Healthcare: Supporting Telehealth Awareness Week 2023

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Telehealth, in its many flavors and across platforms, enables omnichannel care — meeting the patient where she is, how she wants to be met, and when. That requires hearing her, valuing her, understanding her.

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“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Roughly 2 in 5 healthcare leaders look to technology to connect with out-of-hospital settings, cloud-based tech to support access to information “everywhere,” decision support tech (such as AI in clinical settings), communications, workflow applications, and patient-facing mobile check-in and registration.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Thus is the connection between physician/clinician experience and patient experience — which can be helped through adopting the right technologies and programs that directly address the root causes of burnout. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey.

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How the Coronavirus and Technology Are Reshaping Home-Work, -Life and -Health

Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Grandparents, physically separated from beloved grandchildren, have become “Baby Zoomers” with Boomers adopting Zoom , Skype and Facetime for virtual meet-ups with family members. [At Affluent households drive this trend, CTA found: 1 in 4 affluent folks are using online health and fitness services more often.

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Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Dr. Santa Intends to Deliver Consumer Health-Tech for the 2022 Holidays

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

adults plan to give a health or wellness product for 2022 holiday gifting, still in post-pandemic behavior change in seeking hygienic and well-being baked into daily living. Thus, sales for air purifiers and smart/connected health monitors garner consumer interest for gifting. Nearly 1 in 2 U.S.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Consider… MedWand was granted FDA 510(k) clearance for the company’s telemedicine innovative (and clinically-validated) vitals and remote examination tools which enable doctors and patients to meet up virtually for check0ups that can capture blood pressure, blood glucose spirometry, and weight data along with temperature, blood oxygen levels, (..)

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#094: Glen Tullman of Livongo Health on building a consumer-first digital health company

Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That speaker was none other than Glen Tullman , the Executive Chairman and Founder of Livongo Health. On Our Terms: Empowering the New Health Consumer. Health Podcast Network. Digital Health Events. Connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter. Meet our Premier Partners. Livongo on LinkedIn. Dan Kendall.

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Zoom Became a Household Name in the Pandemic. It’s Working to Do the Same in Healthcare – At #HIMSS21

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

This is designed to take out friction of having to download an app, allowing the patient to simply open up an email or text that contains a Zoom meeting link from the provider. In preparing for our virtual meeting, I found that Ron had been trained as a nurse, and was a young pioneer working with the Maine telemedicine network 25 years ago.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

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MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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Koen Kas, the Gardener of Health Tech Delights

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Note the book cover’s digital health-tech personae of some of the myriad characters imagined in Bosch’s canvas. See Adam wearing Google glasses and Eve next to a digital twin, health devices, remote health tech and skin-worn sensors.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

As part of the long-term plan for the NHS, funding will be provided to connect patients to a variety of activities, such as cookery classes, walking clubs and art groups, reducing demand on the NHS and improving patients’ quality of life.” He studies digital health passionately, personally, viscerally.

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Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Couple this with the sustainability companies working on accessibility, energy, food-tech, smart cities, and clean water, and we find CES convening a meeting that is working hard to walk the talk about “inclusion.” Some of the exhibitors collaborating in the HS4A showcase include Abbott, AARP, Bosch, Nasdaq, and Siemens.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Relieving stress has been a focus of digital health products at CES since the inception of the digital health program. I’ve been waiting and waiting for this innovation to come through the FDA journey, and it did so in December: I covered this long-awaited clearance here in Health Populi. Reducing stress.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

If we begin to see a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, this restriction would limit many telehealth providers that do not currently serve Medicare populations from supporting and relieving pressure on local providers that would need help to meet increased demand from patients seeking care. Clearly, the U.S.

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

These skills are already helping make health care better for providers in medical practice and consumers and caregivers at home for aging support, medication adherence, and mental health. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Shelly’s intro to #CES2019 resonated with my health/care lens on this meeting.

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Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves

How Virtual Care is Morphing into “Just” Healthcare – my post in Medecision Liberation

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

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

Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

The Growth of Emerging Consumer Electronics Categories Adds to Digital Health Platforms

What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Depression and Anxiety are Toxic Side Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

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

Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Consumers Focus on Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Self-Care a New Normal?

Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey

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

How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

The Omnichannel Imperative for Healthcare: Supporting Telehealth Awareness Week 2023

“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

How the Coronavirus and Technology Are Reshaping Home-Work, -Life and -Health

Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021

Dr. Santa Intends to Deliver Consumer Health-Tech for the 2022 Holidays

The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)

#094: Glen Tullman of Livongo Health on building a consumer-first digital health company

Zoom Became a Household Name in the Pandemic. It’s Working to Do the Same in Healthcare – At #HIMSS21

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Koen Kas, the Gardener of Health Tech Delights

Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

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