Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020. This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations. On February 27, 2019, the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” health care. Let’s talk about Technology and Trust.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

The startup uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and other smart speakers to engage patients and the elderly and connect them with their caregivers. Last summer, Best Buy put down $800 million in cash to acquire GreatCall, a mobile device that connects health and emergency response services to older people and their caregivers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health. Read my post for more context and details into my post-HIMSS 2019 thinking on trust in data stewardship.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

How time is a tincture and retail health, well, a business recognizing that some demographics (like women committed to health, fitness, stress reduction, mental health promotion, and resilience) have money to spend on high-value and evidence-based products. In 2019, the company launches Ava tracker 2.0.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

According to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services , there were over 500,000 reported cases of healthcare confidentiality and security breaches in the United States in 2019 alone. To ensure true patient safety, working with someone with experience in this arena is very important.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

According to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services , there were over 500,000 reported cases of healthcare confidentiality and security breaches in the United States in 2019 alone. To ensure true patient safety, working with someone with experience in this arena is very important.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Along with lots of apps sponsored by gym chains and exercise personalities, the market for connected fitness equipment grew like topsy in 2020 in the #StayHome pandemic era. Peloton was valued at $8 billion in January 2020, reaching $35 billion by October 2020, being valued more as a tech company than a fitness or health care firm.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). I’ve covered this influential document here in Health Populi through my health economics/consumer tech lens for most years since 2011 (skipping 2012 and 2016).

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Total HIPAA Compliance. If you want to keep up on what’s going on with HIPAA ? Mobi Health News is yet another HIMSS Media blog. It is one of our go-to resources for the latest trends and news in the exploding digital health industry. Check out this post on "The Five Accelerants to the Adoption of Connected Health.".

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Only one in 3 Americans think there are proper safeguards in place protecting the privacy of their personal health information, the first chart illustrates from Kantar’s survey of over 1,000 U.S. adults conducted in November 2019. ENGINE Insights polled over 2,000 auto owners in November 2019 and revealed that.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Among portal users, one in four is very concerned about unauthorized access to the portal’s personal health information. adults 18 and older via phone in July 2019. See the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll data from April 2019 in this last chart for that insight. The poll was conducted among 1,009 U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

In the health/care data ecosystem, stakeholders are addressing the specific challenges related to personal health information (PHI) which HIPAA isn’t covering well in this era of Big Data, cloud computing, and of course, bad actors in the dark cybersecurity breach market. What’s not CGD are data covered by HIPAA.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs.

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