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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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

Health Populi

Rock Health analysts expect that wearable tech use will continue to grow with more use cases for remote health monitoring coupled with consumers and patients being incentivized to continue their use. Telehealth adoption also grew from 2017 to 2018. Live video use roughly doubled, from 19% in 2017 to 34% in 2018.

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

Health Populi

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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

Health Populi

In the extensive privacy discussion in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I cited Deloitte’s 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey which described consumer privacy as “a concerned embrace of technology” (see page 14 within the report link). Three-fourths of U.S.

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

This is important because in 2017, one in four new drugs approved by the FDA were designed to treat a small population, falling. An essay in Health Affairs speaks to Data Sharing For Precision Medicine: Policy Lessons and Future Directions, written by a team of researchers based in Zurich a the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.