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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. As the report concludes, “people’s sentiments and behaviors” with respect to technology in health care “provide no clear answer.”

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Health care system financing, delivery, and workflows widely vary across nations around the world. One very important finding in this study is that access to one’s health data demonstrates consumers are more collaborative with their clinicians — and are more open to sharing their data.

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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The Tech User Experience for Older Adults Needs A Reboot

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But there’s a problem: AARP’s tech trends survey from 2024 and their 2023 guidance from AARP on inclusive design practices, it’s clear and as the AARP report notes, “No one prefers badly designed, over-complicated products.” Despite preferences, surveys show that today’s user experience for older adults is more problematic than ever.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo , a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways. mobile consumers.

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For older adults, the future of wearables is predictive

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Also notable, considering that most wearables are still paired with them, smartphone ownership has risen most sharply among the 70+, with 77% of survey responders indicating they own one. Wearables are increasingly providing health status signals, some useful, some not. More when there’s more.