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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

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These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.

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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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Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.

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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

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Similarly, 42% of global health citizens were very or extremely comfortable with consulting a therapist online or via a mobile health app for mental health counsel and support. In 2021 overall, over 40% of U.S.

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

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In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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

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As an example of this trend, Accenture points to Mindstrong which leverages AI and machine learning to divine digital phenotypes of consumers-patients that inform mental health support. ” There’s no more eHealth or mHealth — it’s all health, it’s all digital.

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mHealth guide to Mobile World Congress 2019

mHealth Insight

Last year mHealth fell off the radar for the GSMA and there was no mHealth content at the world’s biggest mobile industry conference and exhibition (held annually in Barcelona – [link]. MD, Global Lead, Connected Health, Digital. MD, Global Lead, Connected Health, Digital. Date & Time.

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

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Accenture also quantified that people are using virtual digital health tools more for both physical and mental well-being. Growing downloads and use of fitness and health apps, more workouts at home via fitness portals and online gym offerings, and mental health programs like Headspace and Calm have grown in the COVID-19 pandemic.