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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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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.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

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The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to manage challenging economic headwinds, shopping for technology is preparing people for their new normal — with household budgets and value in mind. 24% of U.S.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

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Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues. Deloitte found that U.S.

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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.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

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With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). Beyond alcohol, the company is working on additional DTx categories including insomnia and depression, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and PTSD, among other conditions.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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Compared with the ten other countries studied, the Commonwealth Fund placed the U.S. in second position just behind New Zealand which topped the list for care process. Otherwise, America ranked dead last in the four other categories, placing it in overall last place for health system performance among other wealthy countries.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

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CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Heart health at home.