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

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Beyond health, the report also addresses a landscape of sectors, including retail and eCommerce, fitness, commuting (for work), and travel, along with various lifestyle areas. Use of health and fitness apps ranked third, with telehealth for mental health services ranking fourth in growing use in the pandemic.

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

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Note that telehealth was not nearly the only digital health tool employed by consumers and clinicians during the pandemic; clinical trials leveraged connected devices, care team emails proliferated (part of telehealth, broadly defined), and disease management apps supported patients managing chronic conditions from home.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

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This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.