Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
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. Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. One in 3 older people who use a mobile health app do so for exercise, followed by nutrition (currently adopted by 22% of older folks), weight loss (for 20%), and sleep (17%).
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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 most popular ways people currently track their health is for exercise, sleep, weight, diet and food, and blood pressure.
Health Populi
JULY 16, 2019
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).
Health Populi
OCTOBER 6, 2021
This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. Beyond tracking activity/steps, exercise and weight via digital means, more patients began to track blood pressure with connected cuffs and wrist-worn devices.
Health Populi
JANUARY 19, 2024
You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. This month, a paper on the digital determinants of health was published in PLOS Digital Health.
Health Populi
JUNE 8, 2021
Growing digital health investments that will push patient utilization up. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. As we ponder health care utilization and medical spending in 2022, the wild cards that could increase PwC’s 6.5% Preparations for the next pandemic, and.
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