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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

Compared with patients living in other nations, Americans are also more likely to be willing to share their personal health data with doctors, device developers, research organizations, and emergency services. consumers 18-64 years of age assessed the state of medical debt in the U.S.

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COVID-19 Has Accelerated Consumers’ Interest in Healthy Home Tech

Health Populi

For sleep solutions, improving mental and physical health also ranked first, followed by convenience, a mate wanting it, recommendations from professionals like a doctor or health coach, and an ability to monitor sleep when not home — in the case of a wearable technology like a Fitbit watch or Oura ring.

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

Health Populi

The first line is the most dramatic shift, illustrating the use of telehealth or remote medical services used pre-pandemic by 10% of consumers. After the pandemic, consumers rank telehealth use equal to their use of online health services like WebMD, which increased in use only a few percentage points in the pandemic.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

Most basic in the latter has been the lack of broadband connectivity preventing some people from the digital transformation from which other “have’s” in society benefited: the ability to work from home, attend school from home, exercise at home, and access medical services through virtual care platforms like telemedicine.

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Newsletter, November 2023

Patient Safety Movement

The American Lung Association urges adults to ask their doctor if they are up to date on their CDC-recommended adult vaccinations and take a personal risk assessment at Lung.org/pneumococcal. Though the CDC recommends all adults 65 years or older receive pneumococcal vaccination, vaccination rates among US adults remain low.