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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. They are licensed, trained, and tested for service.
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.
Health Populi
AUGUST 21, 2019
Better understanding this group of people will be critical to helping manage a fast-growing health care bill, and growing burden of chronic disease, for America. To that end, HealthMine conducted a survey among 800 people enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans ag 65 and over with at least one diagnosed chronic condition in April and May 2019.
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. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.
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. The title of the report, “Health on Demand,” speaks to the first bar chart.
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. Around one-third to nearly 40% of all health citizens were concerned about these health issues a year into the pandemic.
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. and the U.S. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.
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.
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.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 2, 2019
The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. The first chart illustrates patients’ use of tech and tools for health and fitness by country studied.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
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. I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen.
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.
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.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
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. I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen.
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.
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.
Health Populi
JUNE 16, 2021
In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Deloitte’s Center commissioned an online survey among 2,009 U.S. Note that “human touch” came before “connectivity issues.”
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. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.
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.
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 survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.
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.
Health Populi
JUNE 11, 2020
consumers’ food habits in the organization’s annual 2020 Food & Health Survey , the fifteenth year of the study. People with higher levels of education are more focused on food’s role in health than weight, the study found. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2021
Authors of the report were Victoria Rideout, longtime expert on families, youth, and media; Susannah Fox, “Internet Geologist” well-known for her work on peer-to-peer health care and the origins of the Internet in health care (and in full disclosure, my close friend); and Alanna Peebles and Michael Robb, researchers at Common Sense.
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 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.
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].
Health Populi
JANUARY 10, 2020
The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES.
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2018
But in the past year, the percentage of people using Facebook and its corporate sister YouTube has flattened, based on the survey report, Social Media Use in 2018 from the Pew Research Center. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. adults used in 2017, according to a survey Pew conducted last year.
Health Populi
JUNE 6, 2019
The Pew survey explored Americans’ adoption of technology and found that rural dwellers are also less likely to have multiple devices than non-rural consumers. In the U.S.,
Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S.
Health Populi
MAY 6, 2020
At the same time, peoples’ societal worries seem even more concerning: 82% fear for the health of others, and 9 in 10 consumers are worried about the impact on the larger economy outside of their own kitchen table. Accenture also quantified that people are using virtual digital health tools more for both physical and mental well-being.
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.
Advanced Medical Reviews
JANUARY 9, 2019
Comprised mostly of remote patient monitoring, video conferencing, mobile health and the electronic transmission of medical information via a secure transmission, telehealth is commonly used in the medical fields of dermatology, urology, chronic disease, intensive care and mental health. Exhibiting Innovation.
Consumer eHealth Engagement
JULY 20, 2023
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