Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.” Who’s most-trusted? Seven in ten U.S.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The top-demanded health consumer digital health applications included, The ability to find doctors and make appointments online, for 51% of people. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%. The third chart from the GlobalWebIndex survey asks, “how do consumers feel about sharing their data?”

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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2024

Patients’ experience with health care in the U.S. dropped to its lowest point over the past year, explained in the 15th release of The Beryl Institute – Ipsos PX Pulse survey. ” The survey was fielded by Ipsos among 1,018 U.S. The study into U.S. adults in March 2024.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

Authors of the report were Victoria Rideout, longtime expert on families, youth, and media; Susannah Fox, “Internet Geologist” well-known for her work on peer-to-peer health care and the origins of the Internet in health care (and in full disclosure, my close friend); and Alanna Peebles and Michael Robb, researchers at Common Sense.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. Interestingly, 70% of patients also viewed their clinical notes in 2022, newly-measured by the ONC survey.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

The Pew survey explored Americans’ adoption of technology and found that rural dwellers are also less likely to have multiple devices than non-rural consumers. Health Populi’s Hot Points: There’s a new social determinant of health in town, and it’s broadband connectivity. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

The study is based on a survey of over 1,300 U.S. As I write up my read on the survey results, I will use the acronym “TYAs” alternating with the phrase “young adults,” to refer to the cohort of 14-22 year old’s surveyed in this study. Two-thirds have used a mobile app related to health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

WEGO Health’s new report on the state of patient social networks found that patients are indeed socially-sharing personal health information with each other — but getting savvier about it with respect to managing privacy. Fifty-five percent of patient influencers said that privacy concerns have not changed their use of Facebook.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

For CHCF that year, I wrote Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Being Tracked and Used , I took cues from a 60 Minutes ‘ profile of third-party data brokers and Latanya Sweeney’s groundbreaking research at the Harvard Privacy Lab. mobile consumers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health.

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MAY 3, 2021

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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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

We who work in healthcare must pose the questions: going forward, how trusting will patients, consumers and caregivers be sharing their personal health information (PHI)? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

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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JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Deloitte’s Center commissioned an online survey among 2,009 U.S. Note that “human touch” came before “connectivity issues.”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Patients “yearn” for personalized services and relationships in health care — optimistic that technology can help deliver on that hope — we learn in Healthcare’s Future: Balancing Progress and Perception , a health consumer survey report from Lavidge.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

But more people are taking care into their own hands, and welcome a growing role for technology to play in enabling self-care, supporting prevention, and improving treatment of diagnosed conditions, according to The Future of Connected Health , a consumer survey from ResMed. Making health care costs transparent.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

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. Even so, 2 in 3 adults said they would likely get an app to track a medical condition that was approved by the FDA. times (10% to 26%).

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. b.well Connected Health updated its platform to offer a configurable AI architecture.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

That process will involve working with seven current Qualified Health Information Network candidates, along with any future QHIN applicants. Five in six (83%) of hospital executives are worried about losing business to ambulatory surgery centers, according to survey data from Alexander Group.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Consumer care coordination company Quantum Health was certified as a Great Place to Work.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Health and our health information are deeply personal. Changing health care and inspiring positive health behaviors is hard to do. Taken together, these can be a toxic cocktail when not aligned for positive health behavior.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to the 2019 Accenture Digital Health Consumer Survey , patient’s expectations are increasing for providers to offer digital capabilities. Providence Health’s Innovation team continuously monitors these trends to identify ways to deliver a better patient care experience.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. health care landscape and asks the question in the study report’s title: “Are consumers already living the future of health?” ” For the general survey of U.S.

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