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How Public Health Crises Have Advanced Medical Technologies

InTouch Health

Throughout history, medical technology has largely evolved according to demand. Several major health crises forced the industry to reconsider the status quo, leading to sweeping changes throughout the United States’ health system. Ultimately, these efforts helped improve the health of the nation.

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

Health Populi

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. 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.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? That’s the supply side of HLTH. This month’s announcement launching the Advanced Care at Home Initiative bolsters this phenomenon.

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The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

Health Populi

“Despite breathtaking medical advancements since President Harry Truman declared war on heart disease 75 years ago, researchers have observed a disturbing trend that started in 2009: America’s death rate from heart-related conditions is climbing again,” the detailed essay explains.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

So at #CES2019, I’ve identified examples of technologies on the show floor to address heart health in each of these can-do, patient-empowering behavior changes. I provide these as exemplars in their categories, with the proviso that they do not represent clinical advice from this health economist and trend-weaver.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

Health Populi

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.