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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. Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

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.

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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

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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.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

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Growing digital health investments that will push patient utilization up. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. during the public health crisis. As we ponder health care utilization and medical spending in 2022, the wild cards that could increase PwC’s 6.5%

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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The Digital Health Corner

A handful of small studies have shown that ‘brain exercise’ in the form of cognitive augmentation games decreases the risk in normal individuals of getting Ad. In a previous post I discussed the merits of music as an ideal digital health tool. Public health policy might very well change as a result of such outcome studies.

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A Springtime Re-Set for Self-Care, From Fitness to Cozy Cardio: Peloton’s Latest Consumer Research

Health Populi

It’s also interesting to see people re-defining what constitutes “exercise” and fitness routines: say, sex and household chores (with over 70% of consumers calling each of these activities workouts. Read more about the phenomenon at the link on AP News, published in February 2024).

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What HealthyThinker Is Thinking About Health at CES 2020

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Next week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will convene CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, where over 180,000 tech-minded people from around the world will convene to kick the tires on new TVs, games, smart home devices, 5G connections, 3-D printing, drones, and to be sure, digital health innovations.