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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

The ONC study revealed that while a growing group of patients access their electronic health records, 1 in 4 patients did not do so due to privacy and security concerns. Baking in privacy by design must be the go-to strategy for health IT developers to bolster patient trust in their electronic health records.

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

Health Populi

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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

Health Populi

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

Health Populi

With the alarming growth of cyber-threats in healthcare, it’s key for an enterprise health cloud to address security rules, safeguards and specs required by HIPAA. Coming full-circle to Neil’s tweet, about developing health IT with Heart, I remind everyone attending #HIMSS18 the mantra initially coined by Tim Sanders, a Yahoo!

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do.

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

Health Populi

I haven’t yet read all 1,244 pages of the Rule, but I gleaned sections on consumer privacy which underpins one of my two pillars on what’s a Health Citizen (FYI, as described in HealthConsuming , the second feature is health care as a civil right in a nation providing universal health care).