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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

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Zingbox surveyed over 400 U.S.-based based healthcare IT leaders for the survey in October 2018. 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.

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

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The proportion of people willing to share data with research institutions fell by 44% to 34% in the two years, and with health tech companies, flat at 23% between 2018-2019. ” True — yet the proportions have dropped between 2018 and 2019 as follows: Google is down 4 percentage points over the past year. with Apple.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

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Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. The link will take you to the Request, and input will be accepted until 31 May 2018.

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What the Pew Data on Americans’ Views on Technology Means for Healthcare

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This data point is part of a larger consumer survey on Americans’ attitudes about the growing role of technology in society, particularly with respect to political and social impacts. The survey was conducted in May and June 2018 among 4,594 U.S.

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

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Aside from the technology challenges, which are not trivial, physicians do concur with consumers about the potential benefits of virtual care to expand access, provide convenience to patients, and enable connections in-between office appointment times. “Macy’s?

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How Whirlpool’s #CareCounts Campaign Bolsters a Key Social Determinant of Health

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Let’s talk about the science under the program, which was informed by Dr. Richard Rende, a developmental psychologist and researcher, along with a survey conducted among 600 public school teachers in April and May 2019. “This is the essence of health: not sensors or medical technology, not hardware or smartwatches.

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

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This third chart comes from the latest annual Stress in America survey done by the American Psychological Association , published today on U.S. ” The survey was conducted by The Harris Poll for the APA in August and September 2019 among 3,617 U.S. Election Day 2019. said in the study’s press release.