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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

Health Populi

To be sure, many of us who have been preaching that our ZIP codes are more impactful to our health than our genetic codes have known the evidence backing the social and behavioral determinants of health for a long time. I attended all three days’ worth of sessions in this well-planned and -executed virtual meeting.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. 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. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.

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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

The largest segments in health tech are for smartwatches, connected exercise equipment, and fitness activity tracks whose revenues may have hit their max last year. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges. About 1 in 5 U.S.

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New Model Telehealth Laws for Practicing Over State Lines: Uniform Telehealth Act

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The Uniform Telehealth Act was approved at July’s 131st Annual Meeting of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). The new Uniform Telehealth Act was written to suggest a path forward for practitioners seeking to work over state lines while maintaining existing practitioner standards of care. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Brandwatch collated and analyzed tweets between January 1st 2019 and November 20 2021, that mentioned any of the following phrases: telemedicine, telehealth, virtual care, digital medicine, digimedicine, mental health, doom scrolling, trauma dumping, and meeting fatigue.

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

Health Populi

The first chart lays out 3 timelines for consumers’ experience with health and fitness activities: those used before the COVID-19 pandemic, those currently using, and those people plan to use after the pandemic. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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Consumers Continue to Lean Into Digital Services: Beyond Tech and Hardware at #CES2023

Health Populi

Finally cast your eyes to the health/wellness/fitness line item in the chart: 4 in 10 consumers were using on-demand health services (read: telehealth, virtual care, tele-therapy) more after the pandemic. Digital therapeutics, “new ways to manage health conditions;” and, Fitness tech.