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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The power of Digital Health in dietary education for chronic conditions

Digital Health Global

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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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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New Study of Mindfulness Apps & Online Programs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Recently published in the Journal for Technology and Behavioral Science , the study was designed to assess the current state of the literature on the use of online programs and mobile applications of self-compassion, mindfulness, and meditation (digital mindfulness-based interventions; dMBIs). Why Focus on Workers? type of occupation).

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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

Health Populi

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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

Health Populi

sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Health Populi

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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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.