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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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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

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Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. This study assesses two measures of U.S. Energy efficient smart homes are faster growing, and. 24% of 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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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

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.” This is akin to our pointing out over the past years that every company is a health company. This graphic illustrates that about one-half of companies listed on the S&P have a direct impact on people’s health: think pharma, life sciences, medical technology, health insurance, food, and transportation.

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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. Otherwise, America ranked dead last in the four other categories, placing it in overall last place for health system performance among other wealthy countries. health care system, “was designed to work this way.” ” True, U.S.

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

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doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Adoption of digital tools has grown across physicians of all ages, specialty, and gender across all technologies studied.

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How Will Consumers’ Declining Trust in Technology Impact Health Tech?

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Richard Edelman convened a virtual meeting launch for the Trust Barometer’s tech perspectives yesterday, looking broadly at the global study findings. Note that social media ranks very much last here…although social media is now seen as embedded into consumers’ definition of “technology.”