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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

It’s important to note that 79% of consumers support the idea of medical devices and sensors that immediately transmit significant changes to peoples’ doctors, as the bar chart from Unisys’s consumer survey data illustrates. ” To deal with this growing challenge, this week the U.S.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then?

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. The basic (well, not-so-basic) operating system starts with the electronic health record (EHR), accessing data for the patient: allergies, conditions, immunizations, labs, meds, procedures, vitals, in real-time and in a continuous longitudinal timeline.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. will reach $845 million based on the forecast of the Consumer Technology Association, convening the annual 2021 CES this week in a virtual format. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

Here, note the growth of connected TVs, more spending on laptops and computers (driven heavily by continued working-from-home and educating supported in homes), gaming (again, with homes even more focusing on entertainment and family and individual fun time), and wireless headphones — part of that 21st century living.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.