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Nurses are the most trusted profession in America, followed by doctors and pharmacists

Health Populi

Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth year-in-a-row, Gallup found in its annual survey of honesty and ethics in professions. At the bottom of the list for honesty and ethics in 2018, Gallup points to U.S. Congress-folk and car salespeople have ranked at the low-trust bottom for many years in this Gallup poll.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. Note in the first bar chart that in 2018, 89% of those 45-54 and 74% of people 55 and over have “ready access” to a smartphone. which 1 in 2 U.S.

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

Health Populi

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. 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.

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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. Change is hard, and for the time-pressured nurse or midwife, it could be difficult to carve out enough time to learn a new system when they already had an embedded practice that worked for them. Not having real-time data made making decisions difficult.

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Telemedicine improves care, keeps patients in place at skilled nursing facility

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The skilled nursing sector has undergone a major transition over the past ten years. Because of shifting demographics and the challenges they place on hospitals, skilled nursing facilities are receiving patients who are struggling with more significant health concerns than in the past. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Telehealth Technology Summit 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Join us for the inaugural Telehealth Technology Summit 2018! This event will be held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 12 – 13, 2018. It is perfect for Health Care Providers, Physicians, Specialists, Nurses, Hospital and Health Care Administrators and Policy Makers.

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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

all ahead in the remains of the year of 2018. Here are six blog posts from October 2018: What is Caregiving Technology, Anyway? TenTips for Launching a Product or Service – October 2018. It’s 2018 and in full sprint to the year-end finish. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. It's crazy.

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