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

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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? a senior managing director in Accenture’s global Health practice.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

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Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. One-half of patients accessed a local physician’s practice service in the second quarter of 2020.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

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fielded between September and November 2020. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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

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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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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K.,

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

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In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. increased by a relatively low 6.0%