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Nurses are the most trusted profession in America, followed by doctors and pharmacists

Health Populi

Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth year-in-a-row, Gallup found in its annual survey of honesty and ethics in professions. At the bottom of the list for honesty and ethics in 2018, Gallup points to U.S. Congress-folk and car salespeople have ranked at the low-trust bottom for many years in this Gallup poll.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. Note in the first bar chart that in 2018, 89% of those 45-54 and 74% of people 55 and over have “ready access” to a smartphone. which 1 in 2 U.S.

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Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018

Health Populi

2018 midterm elections. It would streamline services, vaporize redundancies and confront the costly nursing-home industry. That is sound advice as we all head to the polls today, 6th November 2018…because every vote counts. …because it does. Think unity, think community, think health.

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Nursing home Covid-19 deaths – the NY Times data shouts – but what is it saying?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The NY Times decided that tracking down and mapping the list of nursing home deaths nationwide required more than 30 contributing writers for the story. The ‘Nursing Homes in Crisis’ collection is about Covid-19 in 2020. Why are people in nursing homes? Women make up the majority of nursing home residents.

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Nursing home deaths – the NY Times data shouts – but what is it saying?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The NY Times decided that tracking down the list and mapping nursing home deaths nationwide merited more than 30 contributing writers for the story. The ‘Nursing Homes in Crisis’ collection is about Covid-19 in 2020. Why are people in nursing homes? You probably know the reasons -- but let us recap. Lawyers are at the ready.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. Change is hard, and for the time-pressured nurse or midwife, it could be difficult to carve out enough time to learn a new system when they already had an embedded practice that worked for them. Not having real-time data made making decisions difficult.

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