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Nick Desai, Renee, on creating a personal health assistant for elderly and underserved patients

The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health

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Can Seniors Use Telehealth?

Zade: I can't help but think tech is potentially difficult, if you want to call it that to overcome for some of our senior patients. But 89% of seniors use text messaging on a regular basis, right? 75% have done video calls with their relatives over the holidays, not in the 80 plus audience, but in the 55 to 80 aging American population. They've done face time. Is that using tech, right? It is definite. Zade: If you make health tech as easy as tech, solve the problem of ridiculously disconnected, disjointed, absurdly hard to use experiences and build a truly differentiated product.

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