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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Healthcare is a $3 trillion+ industry wrought with waste and middlemen.Two insurers, UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, are among America’s largest firms by revenue, bringing in $200 billion and $185 billion respectively in 2017. By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. Patient portals give users an online view of their health data, as do PHRs. The patient accesses the information through a secure portal,” ONC says.