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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.

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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. One in 3 older people who use a mobile health app do so for exercise, followed by nutrition (currently adopted by 22% of older folks), weight loss (for 20%), and sleep (17%).

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HealthTech EMEA Predictions 2024: Europe, Middle East and Africa

Lloyd Price

Europe Predictions for the European HealthTech landscape in 2024: Increased investment in mental health: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health, and there is a growing recognition of the need for better mental health care.

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Ways mHealth can help GPs manage Patient needs in a lockdown

mHealth Insight

This fascinating Twitter thread by NHS GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp reminded me how how poorly the RCGP has prepared GPs to manage care in 2020 and got me thinking of specific practical ways that mHealth can meet care needs in these exceptional times (if you have any suggestions please add them below in the comments): “1. To be completed.

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Digital self-management emerging as a new high growth HealthTech sub-sector in 2024

Lloyd Price

The growth of the digital self-management market is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, the rising demand for personalized healthcare, and the growing adoption of mobile health (mHealth) technologies. In 2021, the global digital self-management market received a total of $12.9

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Reuters Health: Telemedicine surging in US but still uncommon

mHealth Insight

As of 2016, 32 states have passed so-called “parity” laws requiring insurance coverage and reimbursement for telemedicine visits” I think this is a classic misunderstanding of what Telemedicine actually is by researchers who for a variety of reasons want it to be all about remote Doctor video consultations.

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

VA is piloting a health chat feature as well. And VA’s mobile app store now has 45 apps available to help veterans monitor and manage numerous health issues, to include smoking cessation, patient management, mental health care, and more. In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6