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

Health Populi

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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

Health Populi

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? Three-fourths of U.S.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

We know web-search for health information — seeking advice on symptoms, prescription drugs, or diagnoses — has been a mainstream behavior for most consumers for several years. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Consumers getting more “angsty” about privacy, and this extends to health data.

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Will Trade Data for (Cheaper) Health Care – USC’s View of the Future

Health Populi

adults in August 2019 regarding 25 issues concerning health care and digital technology. In today’s data-for-cheaper-care world, it’s Our Data, Our (Lower-Cost) Health Care. . The publication conducted a poll among 3,000 people, and found that 44% of them would exchange personal data for free Wi-Fi.