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Bonus Features – December 22, 2024 – 83% of providers want virtual care to be a permanent part of their practice, Medicare home visits have dropped 17% since 2017, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Overall rejection rates for pharmacy claims are roughly the same as they were 8 years ago, at about 16% of all claims, according to Komodo Health data. That said, rejection rates hit a trough in 2018 and have increased 16% since then.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

I noted the Yin-and-Yang-and the Blur of this health data ecosystem in 2013 when I attended CES, HIMSS and South-by-Southwest in a matter of weeks, kicking tires on digital health developments at all three events. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding. billion.

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A National Study Utilizes Routine Health Data to Investigate Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases

Digital Health Global

The study, published in the Lancet Digital Health , highlights the importance of identifying and preventing transfusion-transmitted diseases to ensure the safety of blood transfusions. The researchers analyzed a nationwide transfusion database called SCANDAT-3S, encompassing data on 1.72 million transfusions between 1968 and 2017.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo , a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways. mobile consumers.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

In the extensive privacy discussion in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I cited Deloitte’s 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey which described consumer privacy as “a concerned embrace of technology” (see page 14 within the report link). Three-fourths of U.S.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

The most-trusted organizational types noted were financial services providers, digital payment providers, and health care providers — with roughly only 1 in 4 consumers trusting these industry segments for carefully handling personal data.