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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Digital Health's Silk Road: Will more Chinese HealthTech companies expand to Europe?

Lloyd Price

The company has also partnered with European hospitals and healthcare providers to develop digital health solutions. Tencent Healthcare: the technology company has developed a number of healthtech products, such as a medical image analysis platform and a digital health record system.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Digital Health and Technological Promise: A Sociological Inquiry

Lloyd Price

What is ‘digital health’? Digital health’ is of growing interest to policymakers, clinicians, and businesses. Citizens’ use of digital technologies is likened to a Faustian bargain: citizens are likely to surrender something of far greater value (their personal data) than what they obtain from their use.

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Why Humana Joined CTA – The Pivot from “Health Insurance” to Behaving as a Health-Tech Start-Up

Health Populi

If you read this blog, you know one of the fastest-growing “aisles” at the annual conference is digital health. Humana joined up with CTA’s Health and Fitness Technology Division this month. You can read more about Broussard’s consumer-centric approach discussed at HIMSS 2015 here in Health Populi ). (You

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Teladoc Livongo merger: what went wrong with the 'one-stop shop for virtual care' strategy?

Lloyd Price

The market for digital health is maturing. When the Teladoc Livongo merger was announced in 2020, the market for digital health was still in its early stages. However, the market has matured since then, and there are now a number of other digital health companies competing with Teladoc.

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IT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

South Korea already has experienced that in-hospital infections are disastrous from MERS outbreak in 2015. How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? SNUBH has been conducting surveys since 2015 through an electronic survey system. Lessons learnt.