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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

Lloyd Price

Digital health technologies can be used to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery, provide remote care to patients in rural areas, and collect and analyze data to improve public health. iSanté also collects data on patient health, which can be used to improve public health. The growth of the internet.

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

Health Populi

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. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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

Health Populi

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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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Six in 10 patients said their trust/believe in health care providers increased as a result of COVID-19, followed by 50% of patients finding increased trust in urgent care clinics, 49% in public health institutions, 48% in independent pharmacies. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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

Health Populi

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. This isn’t a universal belief among all health citizens, but a majority still embracing science for medicine].

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

Health Populi

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the fastest-growing areas of digital health that grew in the COVID-19 pandemic was use of smartphones for health and fitness.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

Tempering a universally-sunny funding forecast across all digital health start-ups, Sunny explained a few key issues shaping the highly-variable funding trend: while there has been, in his word, a “flood” of new investors entering the space, but many do not have deep health-tech experience.