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

Health Populi

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding.

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

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then? Samsung down 4 points.

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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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How a natural disaster spurred one provider to optimize its IT with managed services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

California's Santa Rosa Community Health, a federally qualified health center, serves more than 40,000 uninsured and underinsured people in the greater Santa Rosa area. In 2017, the Tubbs Fire destroyed 6,000 homes and the provider organization's largest health center, which served half of its patients.

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Microsoft's M&A strategy in healthcare: current trends and potential future activity

Lloyd Price

Microsoft first entered the healthcare market in 2009 with the launch of its HealthVault platform, which allowed patients to store and share their health data. 2014: Microsoft acquires Axolotl Health, a competitor to HealthVault. Allscripts: Allscripts is a provider of EHR systems and other healthcare software.

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Top 5 Examples Of Wearable Medical Devices

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Wearable devices can improve patient care, track personal health data remotely, and even prevent patient deterioration or health problems before they occur. The combination of digitalization, AI, and machine learning in wearable devices has helped many industries, especially the health care field.