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

Health Populi

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.

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

Health Populi

By race, younger Blacks index much lower in terms of searching for information on all health issues (except for heart disease), especially mental health conditions whether anxiety, stress or depression. ” The point is that claiming our mental health now IS mainstream… whatever your age or stage.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. mHealth companies should implement a “zero-trust” approach to securing apps and APIs.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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Connected Health Conference: Digital Health’s Opportunity to Capture a Positive View of Aging

Chilmark Research

The Connected Health Conference and its predecessor events, the Partners HealthCare’s Connected Health Symposium and the Personal Connected Health Alliance’s Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event), aim to frame digital health advancements in the context of improving clinical care delivery as well as personal engagement.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools. health consumers’ growing digital health “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care. This survey was conducted in mid-September 2020, and so the results demonstrate U.S.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

On the downside, lack of access to digital tools and literacies can increase disparities among people already at-risk for other social determinants of health. Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.