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Connected health tools help seniors, but a digital divide persists

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The study found 81 percent of older adults reported using at least one form of DHT, including telehealth services (49%) and mobile health apps (44%). While younger participants in the 50 to 59 age range were more likely to adopt these tools than those aged 60 and older, gender also played a role, with women outpacing men in usage.

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Doctors’ Recommendations Are Top Motivators for Consumers Who Buy Digital Health Devices: Trust and Health

Health Populi

Jason recently appeared at the Parks Associates Connected Health Summit , linking his company’s device to the growing connected health ecosystem in the home-as-health-hub. I’ll close with this interesting statement from Jason Oberfest, VP of Healthcare with Oura, the smart-ring innovator.

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

Importantly, impactfully in terms of health care, three-fourths of folks using medical devices at home said after receiving that alert, their issue was successfully diagnosed once consulting with a doctor. Thus the call for being design-ful along the way of designing, deploying, and supporting connected health devices.

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Connecting for Health at Home: A Unified Field Theory from #CES2025 (On Samsung, Withings, and Panasonic)

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In this post, I’ll share three organizations’ visions for health/care at home, streamlined, convenient, and do-able: via Samsung, Withings, and Panasonic. Each of these companies exhibited and discussed their corporate visions for connected health at home.

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A Profile of Health Consumer-Generations’ Use of Digital Health – Rock Health Takes Us Through the Ages

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have used virtual care, tracked at least one health metric digitally, and own a wearable or connected health device. Digital health has certainly gone mainstream across U.S. In the past year, most consumers in the U.S.

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Health-Tech at the Holidays: 2024 Consumer Health-Tech Trends Under the Tree

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adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. One in two U.S.

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How BioPharma Can Play in Consumers’ Retail Experience Expectations

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Patients as health consumers now know what “good” looks like in their digital experiences.