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Doctors’ Recommendations Are Top Motivators for Consumers Who Buy Digital Health Devices: Trust and Health

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Finally, doctors are trusted data stewards for patients — something we’ve appreciated since the advent of HIPAA. Bravo to Essence Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage plan, for offering Oura rings in 2025 to members who want to engage with self-tracking, sharing data, and acting on advice to benefit their health as they age.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. First, consider: the lack of interoperability between health data, resulting in silos, has plagued our ability to “operate” (that “O” in “OS”) in a smooth fashion across the care continuum, from clinical trials and research to patients’ self-care driving optimal outcomes.

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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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Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g., as more patients get discharged to hospital-for-home and more acute-care workflows that fall on burdened caregivers (that is, family members and friends). Superficial attempts will not be enough to make meaningful changes in improving patient safety.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

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households owning this form of technology. Another important data point in this consumer-tech environmental analysis is that more people are open to artificial intelligence baked into the tasks of daily living, shown in the third chart. and Europe, CTA’s data shows, with two-thirds of consumers in the U.S.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

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The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.” ” That is, actually access the system.

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Best Buy Health’s Latest Insights into Technology and Care at Home

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For chronic disease management programs , vast majority interest across all age groups to support people managing long-term health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, or hypertension — involving a mix of education, lifestyle support changes, monitoring and tailored medical interventions.