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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic. Health consumer, patient, and caregiver literacy for and acceptance of digital health work- and life-flows.

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5 Trends from the American Telemedicine Association Conference 2019

Enzyme Health

Referencing patients as “consumers” has slowly infiltrated the healthcare industry vocabulary over the last decade. 2019 feels like the tipping point where the notion of “patient experience” is being supplanted by the “consumer experience.” Consumers are increasingly taking a proactive role in their healthcare choices.