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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

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How to address the trust-busted technology industry? Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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Topline, consumers “faced difficult choices,” Accenture notes in the report, choosing whether and how to continue their personal health care seeking to limit their risks of exposure to COVID-19. Patients represented one of three conditions, with one-third each managing cardiovascular, immunology/rheumatology, and oncology.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

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health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis.

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Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium

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Years before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” I gained Italian citizenship while retaining my U.S. Note the inclusion of the seat occupied on the plane; this allows the public health authorities to track and trace and contact passengers who might have been seated near another traveler who develops a positive COVID diagnosis.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

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In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

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” Together, the JAMA Network Open research paper and AMA physician survey inform us with useful insights to close that health care digital divide which could make a major difference between some patients’ lives versus their demise.

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

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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.