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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

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

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

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

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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.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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Health Is Social, With More People Using Apps for Physical and Emotional Wellbeing

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The pandemic negatively impacted about one-half of all peoples’ emotional health across generations, with more younger people in Gen Z and Millennials feeling mental health stress along with more women than men. Digital health apps, smartwatches and smartphones won’t be the panacea to solve our mental health crisis.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

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The most popular ways people currently track their health is for exercise, sleep, weight, diet and food, and blood pressure. consumers), followed by exercise, sleep, weight, nutrition, and then new things like medication, mental health, mood, meditation, and blood sugar all attracting at least 1 in 5 new health tracking people.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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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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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

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The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.