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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

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. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

People w3re already adopting digital tech for health before the pandemic began; Apple and Xiaomi dominated market shares for wearable tech globally, and mobile apps for health, wellness, and fitness approached 40,000 available in app stores. Our homes emerged as our health hubs in the #StayHome and quarantine times.

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COVID-19 Has Accelerated Consumers’ Interest in Healthy Home Tech

Health Populi

Healthy home concerns are growing, but few consumers are using available technologies to address these worries. Less than one-half of people use an app or wearable to manage or improve a health issue such as stress/anxiety, sleep, fitness/exercise, eating/nutrition, or blood pressure or heart rate. filtration systems).

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

Dean Ornish’s research has proven patients diagnosed with heart disease can reverse cardiac damage through adopting several behavior changes: exercise, a low-fat diet, On smoking cessation, stress management, and group support. Exercising regularly. Eating a healthy diet. Quitting smoking.

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Element Science Receives CE Mark & UKCA Mark for the Jewel® Patch-Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator

Digital Health Global

Hank Kucheman, who previously served as the CEO of Boston Scientific and is the non-executive chairman and long-time member of the Element Science Board of Directors, said, “Element Science is on the leading edge of leveraging advancements in machine learning, wearable technologies, and miniaturization to revolutionize the way patients receive care.