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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

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based healthcare IT leaders for the survey in October 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Unisys published their 2018 Security Index , finding growing global insecurity concerns among consumers about the internet, identity theft and bankcard fraud — ahead of terrorism, natural disaster and epidemic threats.

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If Data Is The New Oil in Healthcare, Will It Be Safe to Drink? The Accenture Digital Health Tech Vision 2018

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This and other important questions will be brainstormed on the webcast hosted by Accenture on Wednesday 18 July 2018 as we discuss the five trends that paint the firm’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018. Micro-services, APIs, blockchain, and other technology building blocks, Accenture recommends. Extended Reality. Data Veracity.

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

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The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others. And worries about medical error rates and privacy are also justifiable reasons for doctors to slow their adoption of (some) digital and virtual care platforms.

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Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

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Governor Mark Leavitt, who held the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bush, offered this advice at the recent Liberation 2018 conference hosted by Medecision. Part 2: Design to Liberate Healthcare , published 19 April, 2018.

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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. Apple down 7 points.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

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” The pandemic turbocharged this phenomenon, which was called out by Brittney Crock Bauerly, JD, in a 2018 essay for Network for Public Health Law. . ” Assuring health equity in a post-pandemic world.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

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Once cleared (planned for Fall 2018), the clinical quality of the data output promises to be a huge advance for consumer-marketed wearable technology that doctors can trust. Consumer-purchased activity trackers have been criticized by researchers for a lack of accuracy and consistency.