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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Health Populi

The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The top interest health care categories for voice assistants are asking about illness symptoms above all, cited by one-third of consumers.

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Consumer Trust, Privacy and Healthcare – Considering #HIMSS18 in the Stark Light of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Health Populi

These uncertainties have been on my mind since learning the news about the world’s largest social networking platform, which as of the fourth quarter of 2017, had over 2.2 Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

Health Populi

On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.”

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