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Exploring the Digital Health Landscape in the WHO European Region

Digital Health Global

A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) provides insights into the digital health landscape in the WHO European Region. Digital health has emerged as a critical component in reshaping healthcare systems across the 53 countries in the WHO European Region.

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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

Health Populi

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. The authors look through both clinician and consumer lenses.

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

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. 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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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. Beazley conducted a survey among 376 digital health and wellness practitioners and divined four key themes from the research on risk, growth, insurance, and understanding.

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Mercom: Telemedicine investments led 2020's $14.8B in digital health fundraising

Mobi Health News

billion, other areas like data analytics and mobile health apps also earned strong support from investors. While equity investments in telemedicine rose 139% to $4.3

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Consumers’ Use of Digital Health is Just Part of Mainstream Life Now

Health Populi

Using the Internet and mobile health apps are as mainstream as swiping left for a date and researching features in a new car, based on the Digital 2023 Global Overview Report from Meltwater. I combed through the huge report to uncover key information addressing digital health, fitness, and the internet as search sandbox.

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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Health Populi

While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine.