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Only 1 in 4 People Over 50 Use a Mobile Health App – And They Tend to Be Healthier and Wealthier

Health Populi

use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. A recent Rock Health report looked at the “unprecedented market” for aging-in-place and addressing health technologies focused on older peoples’ self-care.

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mHealth Guide to HIMSS19

mHealth Insight

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight blog. Blue Spark Technologies (USA/Booth 8559-13).

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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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What Do Tomorrow’s Doctors REALLY Think of mHealth Technology?

mHealth Insight

Nathan Ratner, a third-year medical student at the University of Minnesota and third-place finisher in last year’s Elsevier Hackathon in Finland, talks to Eric Wicklund at mHealth Intelligence, about the promise of mobile health technology. mHealth Insight.

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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. Clinical tools require studies with outcome data.

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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The Digital Health Corner

Cognitive Assessment Tools. Most tools for assessing cognitive abilities have been of the traditional written form, as offered by the Alzheimer’s Association. The ability of digital tools to detect early diagnosis of Ad is important in medical and social planning for the patient and family. Cognitive Improvement tools.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

The adoption of patient and caregiver-facing tools (which may include appointment apps, remote patient monitoring for self-management of chronic diseases, a standardized enhanced patient portal/communications platform, digital patient education tools, telehealth video conferencing, and others) can generate a message of patients as a priority.