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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. What factors contributed most to clinician burnout in this year’s survey? At the top of the list of stressors was the same issue hurting physician well-being last year: too many bureaucratic tasks, felt by 58% of the surveyed doctors.

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Stress in America on the Pandemic’s 2nd Anniversary: Money, Inflation, and War Add to Consumers’ Anxiety

Health Populi

The public health crisis exacerbated that, especially among women who were harder hit financially in the past two years than men were. The APA survey found that in February, prices of everyday items due to inflation added stress on people already feeling anxious. That situation was even worse for women of color.

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COVID-19-triggered threat changes will linger beyond crisis, say most security pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Cybersecurity experts have serious concerns about the huge changes affecting IT infrastructure and data security around the world, including US critical infrastructure and their own enterprise networks," wrote Black Hat representatives in a report this month detailing the results of the Black Hat USA Attendee Survey.

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Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

We are used to citing population surveys to cite trends. The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adult s. And Linkage Connect surveys the oldest, with a sizable sample of 2398 older adults.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

The first chart from the Edelman health care update demonstrates that in most countries polled, health citizens’ trust in health care was buoyed in the first five months of 2020 (January through May): up 18 points in the U.S., 14 points in Canada and Germany, and 9 points up in the UK and Saudi Arabia.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019. equipment and hardware).