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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health.

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

We’ve reached an inflection point on the demand side among consumers for digital health options, PwC suggests in their report on the New Health Economy coming of age. The report outlines health/care industry issues for 2019, with a strong focus on digital health.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

Digital health: This refers to the use of technology to deliver healthcare services remotely. Examples include telehealth, e-prescriptions, and patient portals. DealRoom: defines "HealthTech as a synonym of Digital Health, the intersection of Health and Technology. How is healthtech evolving?

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. 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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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. Growing digital health investments that will push patient utilization up.

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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

have a smart people at home, only 1 in 13 Americans have used a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant for health care. But over one-half of consumers would like to access a voice assistant for some aspect of their health care, according to a study from Orbita and Voicebot , Voice Assistant Consumer Adoption in Healthcare.

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Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

Lloyd Price

JUNE 11, 2019

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, today announced the publication of its Future Health Index (FHI) 2019 report: ‘Transforming healthcare experiences: Exploring the impact of digital health technology on healthcare professionals and patients’ [1].

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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The Promise of Telehealth for Older People – the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This month’s October 2019 study finds a cohort of Boomers and older peers few of whom have actually used telemedicine — only one in seven people over 50 said their providers offered care via telehealth, and only 4% of people had a telehealth visit in the past year. It’s not enough to build/offer digital health tech to patients.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The bar chart from Kaiser Family Foundation’s look into mental health in 2020, illustrates that pandemic mental health reality, that over one-half of people between 18 and 24 reported symptoms of anxiety or depression during the public health crisis, with the incidence of feeling anxious or depressed declining with age.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

are living omnichannel lives : whether in retail via ecommerce, buying online and picking up in store, or banking online, or studying for college degrees via Coursera, people live, work, play, pray, and learn offline and on-, in real-time and asynchronously. In fact, most people living and working in the U.S.

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Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Digital Health Technologies ( DHTs ) have revolutionized the landscape of clinical trials, particularly in neurology research, by enabling the collection of real-world data outside traditional clinical settings. Another example is CliniScout Recruit by Healthware – a digital service for recruiting subjects to clinical trials.

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What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The first chart from the Pew study illustrates that there are several other social networks tightly clustered in terms of use beyond Instagram, including Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and WhatsApp. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. Social networks are well-used by patients.

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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Across the four types of tech studied, it’s smartphones that top the list of penetration in rural areas (at 71%), closely followed by computers (desktop or laptop, with 69% adoption), broadband (at 63%) and tablets in fourth/last place (49%).

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Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium

Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

” As it turns out, Clorox was one of the fastest-growing brands in the pandemic, along with gaining a lot of consumer trust equity based on several studies.

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Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Those communities have matured and a decade later, led to the New England Journal of Medicine ‘s Catalyst community assessing how social networks can improve patient health. The Insights Report from this study is available here.

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Providence Saint John uses AI platform to Empower Cancer Patients & Providers for Better Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

JULY 20, 2023

With predictive analytics, providers can identify at-risk patients and see a complete real-time view of the care journey for immediate actions. AI Data- Driven Cancer Platform: Patient Experience Patient Patricia (patient persona), 74 years old, is newly diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health). .”

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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

The pandemic has become a sort of forcing function on all aspects of daily living, include health care. Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. Health Consumers, Deloitte polled 4,522 U.S. Among the DIY workflows was self-care for health care.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Bardy Diagnostics is a digital health and remote patient monitoring company focused on addressing a long-standing complaint by cardiac electrophysiologists and cardiologists regarding their frequent inability to clearly distinguish the P-wave on ECG strips of existing monitors. And the list will continue to be updated over time.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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

Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

The Promise of Telehealth for Older People – the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials

What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium

Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Providence Saint John uses AI platform to Empower Cancer Patients & Providers for Better Care

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

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