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

Health Populi

during the public health crisis. Note on the “decrease” half of the graph is exercise, with 18% of people significantly reducing their physical activity, and one-half of Americans moderately decreasing exercise. The Atlantic offered this take this week].

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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Health Populi

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.

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

Health Populi

That timing is important because the coronavirus re-shaped how people perceived public and individual health, and the growing opportunity to adopt digital health tools for contactless care and care at-home and closer-to-home. Looking to what people would like to track, blood pressure is first most in demand (for 37% of U.S.

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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry

Advanced Medical Reviews

Remote patient monitoring (RPM): involves the remote monitoring of patients’ health and medical data over secure electronic means. Mobile health (mHealth) : involves healthcare services, education and public health notifications being delivered over cell phones, tablets and other electronic devices.

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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. There are various exercises and games on the platform which are both enjoyable and mentally stimulating. Some earlier studies suggested this was the case.

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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).