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. Use of health and fitness apps ranked third, with telehealth for mental health services ranking fourth in growing use in the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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Digital Health Connected Health Public Health Mental health 204

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

Peloton gathered new health consumer data in February and March 2024 to gain insights into peoples’ perspectives on engaging in fitness activities as the weather warms in springtime – a season Peloton’s research found people see as a good time for a “re-set” when it comes to physical and mental health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

Resetting events with wellness. 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. But back to mental health, because it is indeed the epidemic within the pandemic. Just breathe! The self-care renaissance. “Hollywood?”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In peer OECD nations where social spending is a bigger piece of national GDP, health indicators tend to be much better than in the U.S., which is a key factor underpinning my argument for health citizenship in America in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. such as in the U.K.

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