Tailor fit digital health tech to the elderly's needs: study
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Based on latest survey in South Korea, there is a difference in the use of mobile health apps and devices between frail and healthy seniors.
Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
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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Stroke Prevention and Digital Health
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The American Heart Association recently conducted a systematic review using PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines to shed light on the current knowledge, challenges, and opportunities of digital health in primary stroke prevention.
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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The power of Digital Health in dietary education for chronic conditions
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
In this context, digital health emerges as a catalyst for revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?
DigitalHealth
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Today's briefing includes a study looking at the efficacy of mobile health apps and news that ICSs are working with housing providers to improve healthcare.
Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived
Health Populi
MARCH 28, 2019
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. User names were identified by one in five apps studied. style GDPR?
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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2022
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.
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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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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators
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 phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.
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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling
Health Populi
MAY 12, 2021
“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI.
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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”
Health Populi
JANUARY 15, 2020
Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.
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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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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health
Health Populi
JULY 31, 2018
There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know. adults, found in other studies.
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Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile health application for enhancing public private mix for TB care among healthcare Workers in Southwestern Uganda
BMC Digital Health
MARCH 2, 2023
Mobile health interventions can potentially enhance public–private linkage for tuberculosis care. This study sought to assess the initial. However, evidence about their acceptability and feasibility is lacking.
Navigating parenthood made easy with SPA
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 24, 2024
NUS Nursing’s SPA App shows positive outcomes for parents The Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at NUS in Singapore introduces the Supportive Parenting Application (SPA) , a groundbreaking tool offering vital support for those navigating the complexities of early parenthood.
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What are the implications of Babyl Rwanda's closure for the future of Digital Health in Rwanda?
Lloyd Price
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Exec Summary The closure of Babyl has a number of implications for the future of digital health in Rwanda. First, it is a setback for the adoption of digital health services in Rwanda. Babyl was one of the most well-known and widely used digital health providers in the country.
The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health
Health Populi
AUGUST 27, 2018
Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that.
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CareDx Showcases Digital Solutions and Pipeline in Cellular Transplant and Therapy Monitoring at the 2024 Tandem Meetings
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
“Cellular transplant centers are recognizing the value of our digital and patient monitoring solutions, and we look forward to sharing our latest advancements as we work to expand our presence in this dynamic ecosystem,” said Kashif Rathore, Chief of Patient and Digital Solutions at CareDx.
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. DealRoom: defines "HealthTech as a synonym of Digital Health, the intersection of Health and Technology. What is the difference between Digital Health and Healthtech? How is healthtech evolving?
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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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care
Health Populi
MAY 3, 2021
Similarly, 42% of global health citizens were very or extremely comfortable with consulting a therapist online or via a mobile health app for mental health counsel and support. The company also calls out the digital divide where it exists, to ensure including diverse people in business plans and health care innovations.
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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens
Health Populi
DECEMBER 2, 2019
The first chart illustrates patients’ use of tech and tools for health and fitness by country studied. Across each line item, note that more Americans use these tools, with the exception of Singaporeans, more of whom use tech for health and fitness improvement, and monitoring issues like blood sugar.
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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. There’s high demand among both decision makers and employees for a pro-health culture in companies.
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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology
The Digital Health Corner
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.
A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones.
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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study. and United Kingdom.
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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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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.
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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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Lloyd Price
JUNE 14, 2018
2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests.
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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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.
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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 19, 2022
A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons sought to take a closer look at the patients who sought surgical consultations in-person and via telemedicine in 2020. From June 24 through the end of the year, referred to as "Phase II," the study showed a different story. THE LARGER TREND.
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158 Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.
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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM
Health Populi
JANUARY 24, 2022
A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. Nearly one-half of U.S.
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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools. health consumers’ growing digital health “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care.
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BHM Healthcare Solutions
MAY 6, 2015
Technology may be revolutionizing the healthcare industry but while mobile health applications and cloud-based management are convenient, many think they may be compromising the privacy of healthcare data. It’s also important to note that mobile health isn’t just for patients either. Preventative Measures.
The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health
The Digital Health Corner
JUNE 14, 2017
Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. By no means is this a complete discussion of opportunities for digital health. in the approval process of drugs. Social Media.
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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196 Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease
The Digital Health Corner
JANUARY 30, 2017
An exciting study by the Lahey Medical Center and MIT’s Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory looked at using the Anoto Pen versus traditional cognitive assessment tools for Ad and other diseases. Some earlier studies suggested this was the case. Such is the case with Quest Diagnostics’ CogniSense.
People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2022
Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.
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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey
Health Populi
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.
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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help
The Digital Health Corner
JANUARY 19, 2017
After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. Studies of TES and CBT4CBT on outcomes and other endpoints are favorable. Among them is drug addiction.
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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