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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

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Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g., alarm hazards, med errors related to pounds vs. kilograms, mix-up of IV lines), noting several issues still plaguing the U.S.

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

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But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. On average, U.S.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

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Roy and I discussed Philips’ journey to this moment, starting in 2015—that doubling-down to becoming a health-tech company, a vision of digital health on both the hospital/professional and consumer sides of the equation. At that point, the company left behind other businesses not core to health. equipment and hardware).

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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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The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

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Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Rock Health’s top-line findings were that: Patient-generated health data creates opportunity, and potential challenges. of total consumers, followed by: 9.6%

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

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Every year, keeping eyes and ears wide open, I spot something adjacent or somehow influential on health or well-being. My favorite example of this discovery happened at CES in 2015: that would make it a decade ago.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

While Apple product purchases in 2015 were. The older adult consumer segment for Apple Watch adoption has the greatest growth, increasing 15% in 2019. Now women AND men are acquiring Apple watches. Initially it was a guy-thing – an Apple. Watch was perceived to make one look cool. purchased by women. greatest growth, up 15% in 2019.