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How virtual reality can help address the mental health professional shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More people are in need of mental health treatment today than ever before, but there just aren't enough therapists to meet the growing demand. received mental health treatment or counseling. You have said that virtual reality is "the goldilocks" mental healthcare needs. million adults in the U.S.

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Connected Wellness Growing As Consumers Face Tighter Home Economics

Health Populi

times more likely to be engaged in preventive digital health activities than the average person. Peoples’ engagement with digital health technologies ratcheted up by about 10% (5 percentage points) since November 2021, the first line chart from the report illustrates. That represents 148 million U.S. in August 2022.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

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.

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Five Things Digital Health Companies Need to do to Achieve Success

The Digital Health Corner

The objective of my blog, which began in 2011, was and remains educating the reader (clinicians, healthcare IT community, patients and caregivers, and other healthcare stakeholders about digital health technology and how it is relevant to the changing healthcare environment. As in any start-up, an exit strategy should be considered.

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Average Multiples and Key Drivers of Digital Therapeutics (DTx) M&A deals in 2023

Lloyd Price

Here are some additional insights into DTx M&A deals in 2023: The most active acquirers in the DTx M&A market are pharmaceutical companies, followed by technology companies. The most active subsectors for DTx M&A deals are mental health, oncology, and diabetes. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk Subscribe Today!

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

An important keystone for any healthcare strategy for chronic disease is patient self-management. Digital technology use in the addiction space is not a new concept. Digital technology, especially mobile technology is not something to be used in a vacuum in this clinical setting. Drug addiction affects all age groups.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

This initiative resulted in a strategy for tackling loneliness in the United Kingdom. Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease.