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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

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It should be a simple exercise for a patient to understand where their data is going and more importantly why. We can take advantage of that insight because there are already some clear guidelines on how to de-identify Personal Health Information (PHI). Patients have the power to set clear expectations for their privacy.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 2: Bit by Bit, Putting It Together – Planning, Implementing, Pivoting

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So, if you’re a security leader out there and are thinking about modernizing your data governance strategy, start with an exercise in Exact Data Matching, it will save you months of rework down the road. Jane: A recent analysis of health care info security asserted that, “There is no patient safety without cybersecurity.” Stay tuned!

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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

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While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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For Health Consumers, Trust, Privacy, & Good Experience Must Be Baked Into Digital Health Care

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The top-trusted channel for digital health security was doctors and other health care providers like hospitals, pharmacy, and clinical labs. The least-trusted sources for digital health information security were technology companies and government.

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

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The top-line findings alone provide an important baseline profile of TYAs’ use of the internet for health never before described. Nearly 9 in 10 young adults have gone online to seek health information. Two-thirds have used a mobile app related to health. ” Several quotes jumped off the report page to me.

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

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At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The most popular ways people currently track their health is for exercise, sleep, weight, diet and food, and blood pressure.