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Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. ? Held each year – but has much changed? Learn more at Circulation.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 million units with revenues of $4.5 billion.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

And the grocer is expanding its pharmacy footprint , having piloted tele-pharmacy back in 2017. The post Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021.

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

Health Populi

Among consumers willing to share health information, the most trusted touch point is “my physician,” with whom 86% of people said they’d share in 2017 but dropping to 73% in 2019. And, as Cerner announced its collaboration with Uber Health this week, we see a health IT company expanding beyond what an EHR could be.

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

Health Populi

Will people connect dots between their Facebook lives – and their identities on social networks, generally – with their personal health information, privacy and security? 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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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

There were over 400 major healthcare breaches reported between 2017 and 2018, accessing sensitive medical data, targeting patient medical equipment, and seeking to extort financial gain. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (who knew?) and this Center demonstrates DHHS’s commitment to keeping U.S.

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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.” pioneer , that #LoveIsTheKillerApp.

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