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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

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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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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

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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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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

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In the meantime, Amazon announced several HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills in April 2019 that will be just the beginning of this fast-growing phenomenon for voice assistants in health care. The post Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

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While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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Consumers’ Growing Use of Portals and Apps: People Embracing Their Patient Journeys

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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.

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Making Health Care Better, from the N of 1 to the Public’s Health – Trend-Weaving Medecision Liberation 2019

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Health and our health information are deeply personal. Changing health care and inspiring positive health behaviors is hard to do. As many as 1 in 2 Americans has avoided some aspect of health care due to cost in the past year, such as postponing a needed visit to a doctor or not filling a prescription drug.

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Open Source Health Care Will Liberate Patients

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Welcome to the era of Open Source Healthcare, not only the “about time” for patients to own their health, but for the launch of a new publication that will support and continue to evolve the concept. Let’s go back to some definitions and healthcare basics to understand just why Open Source Healthcare is already a thing.