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

Health Populi

In 2019, few health care providers have adopted voice assistants into their workflows. The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance.

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

Health Populi

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300.

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Asynchronous video telemedicine helps TB patients, saves costs in Guam

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. Guam has an extremely high rate of TB: In 2017, the case rate of TB in Guam was 50.2 "They have access to two-way, HIPAA-secure messaging to communicate with their healthcare provider. THE PROBLEM.

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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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The Burgeoning Role Of Venture Capital In Health Care

Henry Kotula

Venture capital businesses have recently funded hundreds of startups developing technology-enabled digital health products, including wearable devices, mobile health applications, telemedicine, and personalized medicine tools. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

The FDA has previously released guidance documents on Mobile Medical Apps and General Principles of Software Validation. The Action Plan calls for a final version guidance by the end of 2017 of its draft proposal of Deciding When to Submit a 510(k) Software Change to an Existing Device. The upgrade approval process will be clarified.