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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The most popular ways people currently track their health is for exercise, sleep, weight, diet and food, and blood pressure.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

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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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.

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

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. consumers’ adoption of digital health technology stalled.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 10, 2023

Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), expressed CHI’s support for the bill: “Interoperability is critical to realize the promise of digital health and enable better, more cost-effective, patient-centered care. first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to share their temperature, 29% their location, and one-fourth information about their chronic conditions. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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The Tik Tok’ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctors’ and Patients’ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Patients’ self-diagnosing conditions online is a new-normal for people engaging with health information online — whether via WebMD and the ClevelandClinic.com or via TikTok — a growing platform for medical information. ” In the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate. Rural and urban dwellers, alike, often cannot afford data plans charged by Internet Service Providers.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues. Deloitte found that U.S.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. Nancy Beavin, Director, Program Delivery, Humana Inc.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. Nancy Beavin, Director, Program Delivery, Humana Inc.

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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sharing data in a public health crisis is important for both identifying people who have been infected to stop-the-spread of the virus, as well as sharing personal health information for developing treatments to cure disease. This is consistent with recent survey data demonstrating U.S.

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A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While health care has been slower than other industries to leverage digital transformation, COVID-19 accelerated change — revealing some key barriers blocking the potential for more fulsome transformation, the OECD explains in its latest version of Health At A Glance for 2023 with a detailed chapter on “digital health at a glance.”

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Americans Most-Trust Health Care Providers With Their Data – But Are They Right To Do So?

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Americans most-trust their doctors, their banks, and their hospitals to protect their personal information. I pose, prompted by this month’s survey from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on data privacy and e-cigarettes. Are people clear-headed about this perception?

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

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

How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

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

Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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

The Tik Tok’ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctors’ and Patients’ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Americans Most-Trust Health Care Providers With Their Data – But Are They Right To Do So?

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