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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

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Consumers and clinicians would be wary of using medical devices known to be hacked, shown in the last graphic from a recent PwC study. The post A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health-Tech at the Holidays: 2024 Consumer Health-Tech Trends Under the Tree

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adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. One in two U.S.

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

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Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. For the study, Propel Software engaged Talker Research to conduct a survey among 2,000 U.S.

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Physicians’ Confidence In and Use of AI is Rising, AMA Finds – Coupling Demand With Many Enabling Factors

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This study updates AMA’s survey conducted in 2023 and found significantly growing confidence and utilization of AI for certain use cases. The AMA polled U.S.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

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Stanford Medicine interviewed 523 physicians and 210 medical students and residents in September and October 2019 to assess clinicians’ perspectives on digital health topics for this study. Similarly, one-half of consumers expressed demand for digital health technologies in a study from GlobalWebIndex last year.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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Compared with the ten other countries studied, the Commonwealth Fund placed the U.S. Spending the most money (as a percent of gross domestic product) does not translate into high health care system outcomes, this study concludes. in second position just behind New Zealand which topped the list for care process. ” True, U.S.

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Accenture Invests in Virtonomy to Help Medical Technology Companies Use Digital Twin Technology to Accelerate Time to Market for Medical Devices

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Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures , in Virtonomy , a provider of data-driven simulations that use existing patient data and digital twin technology to bring life-saving medical devices to market more quickly. For more information, visit virtonomy.io. Originally announced April 12th, 2023