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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

Nearly one-half of consumers also said they’d be comfortable receiving health services from a technology company like Google or Microsoft. This is consistent with a previous survey by PwC’s firm Strategy& conducted several years ago which asked consumers what industries they would trust to help them manage their health.

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Check out these SEARCH2018 Featured Presentations

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The SEARCH Telehealth Research Symposium, scheduled for October 24 – 25 in San Diego, CA, will focus on sharing findings from existing telehealth research to demonstrate lessons learned from connected health programs with an emphasis on planning, research, training and education. Tips for a good study design.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. But this is just the tip of the condescension iceberg: Go ahead, Google ‘technology grandma’. Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+.

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Are Robots Coming to Healthcare? Consumers Say Not-So-Fast

Health Populi

But visions of Rosie-the-Robot serving up healthcare at home is beyond most consumers’ desires at this moment, according to a new survey published by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), Robotics: Current Landscape & Consumer Perceptions. I point this out in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Where has all the telemedicine research gone?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH [link] ) was formed in 2016 by a small team of academics, researchers, and clinical professionals. Collaboration of its membership in connected health research and education projects. There have already been 3 meetings.

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Cost and Convenience Underpin Patient Demands As Health Consumers

Health Populi

Across generations, from younger to older patients, cost, transparency and convenience drive consumer satisfaction, Accenture’s latest health consumer survey found. Our starting point was the tipping-point statistic that over 50% of people in the U.S. have chosen to use a non-traditional health care setting.

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

Aside from the technology challenges, which are not trivial, physicians do concur with consumers about the potential benefits of virtual care to expand access, provide convenience to patients, and enable connections in-between office appointment times. “Macy’s?