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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

health system in the latest Gallup poll — earning a grade of “excellent” or “good” by American adults surveyed in November 2023. The second chart arrays the historical trend downward for all healthcare players (except walk-in/urgent care clinics) looking back to 2003 to 2023.

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Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

According to a recent study by MarkUp and STAT, 49 out of 50 telehealth platforms share sensitive data in ways that may harm healthcare clients and patients. technology companies’ telehealth platforms) to safeguard the privacy of protected health information (PHI). They may or may not be governed by HIPAA.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

Prudential surveyed U.S. FYI, Dr. Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S. consumers in late February 2020 on peoples’ perspectives of the Coronavirus. Note this poll was done three weeks ago from this writing.

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How Health Systems Can Address Consumerism Trends with Telehealth

American Well

1 Telehealth directly addresses these goals and responds to the consumerism trend. Here is a couple of ways in which telehealth helps health systems meet consumer needs and goals: Improve the Health of Populations. For consumers, telehealth offers a quick and easy option for addressing healthcare needs.

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How Health Systems Can Address Consumerism Trends with Telehealth

American Well

1 Telehealth directly addresses these goals and responds to the consumerism trend. Here is a couple of ways in which telehealth helps health systems meet consumer needs and goals: Improve the Health of Populations. For consumers, telehealth offers a quick and easy option for addressing healthcare needs.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from June 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Who would have thought that telehealth definitions would include phone calls and Facetime ? Will results change when older adults are surveyed later this year? Here is where we were on technology adoption at the start of the pandemic, and the wave of telehealth interest heated up. C an seniors use and benefit from telehealth?

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy. A few highlights from the report catch the eye.