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

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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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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

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One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency.

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

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As more consumers view their homes as personal and safe health havens, there is no shortage of suppliers in the food, retail, and mobility sectors working fast to meet that demand for convenient and accessible services. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

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In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

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And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%. consumers likely to use an FDA-approved health tracking tool.

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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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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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How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

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Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. In terms of apparel, that value grew faster for footwear than for any other apparel category.