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

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Remember Healthy@Home in 2008 ? 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.

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Improving health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health What does health literacy have to do with patient safety? I would like to highlight a few.

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Intelerad Acquires Life Image, Establishing the Clear Medical Image Exchange Market Leader and Path to a Global Open Image Exchange Network

Healthcare IT Today

By combining two of the largest image sharing networks and ensuring open access between networks, Intelerad takes a critical step in advancing access to digital health information. “As providers and 58,000 global clinics.

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Trust Is the Currency for Consumer Health Engagement – A Bottom-Line at CES 2020

Health Populi

Several consumer surveys published to coincide with CES 2020 provide insights into the new consumer trust mindset across industries, but especially important for health engagement. The Digital Health Summit at CES collaborated with Kantar on a poll gauging peoples’ perspectives on trust , technology and health.

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The Consumer and the Payor, Bingo and Trust: My Day At Medecision Liberator Bootcamp

Health Populi

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Earlier this week, I spent a day with Medecision’s digital health team, aka ‘the Liberators.’ There’s surely lots of data to mine.