Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the key toxic side effects of the COVID-19 public health crisis has been peoples’ growing sense of isolation and feeling lonely, increasing peoples’ need for mental and behavioral health services. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

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. Accenture’s study also asked whether we will have a “home-working revolution?”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Note that telehealth was not nearly the only digital health tool employed by consumers and clinicians during the pandemic; clinical trials leveraged connected devices, care team emails proliferated (part of telehealth, broadly defined), and disease management apps supported patients managing chronic conditions from home.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. In total, Mercer interviewed 16,564 workers and 1,300 senior decision makers in companies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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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.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The first chart from the Pew study illustrates that there are several other social networks tightly clustered in terms of use beyond Instagram, including Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and WhatsApp. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. adults using the site compared with 68% using Facebook.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Those communities have matured and a decade later, led to the New England Journal of Medicine ‘s Catalyst community assessing how social networks can improve patient health. The Insights Report from this study is available here. Social networks are useful in health care delivery, virtually all healthcare stakeholders agreed.

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Chilmark Research

MAY 26, 2022

Everybody’s been trying to figure out how to incorporate mobile health and apps into the daily lives of patients, but also have that work well with the hospital systems. So I don’t know if you know this about me, but I actually did have a mobile health startup before I joined Chilmark Research. [00:05:30]

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I cannot recall a season when so many health consumer studies have been launched into my email inbox. Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Connectivity can happen in other ways and bolster wellness: consider art-as-medicine.

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