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Digital Health: The Future of Patient Experience | Event Recap

Waracle

Join the conversation, sign up now for our next event in January – The Patient Experience – Empowering Patients. Optimising the patient experience is a tangible route to competitive advantage for any organisation invested in human health and wellbeing. Check out the entire event below. Key Takeaways.

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Zealous for Wellness: The Ongoing Quest for Standard Measures

Healthcare IT Today

As background, it’s worth stating that the insurance industry has settled on a ten-session course of therapy for most conditions (which of course was seen as ridiculously inadequate by the classical Freudian psychoanalytic movement, who could treat patients for years at a time).

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

At that time, six years ago — one in two people said that experience should feel like Amazon, and another 1 in 5 said the best retail store experience (THINK: Nordstrom, REI, name your fave retailer). This was well before the pandemic, of course.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time. This process can.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative. has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. CTA’s new Public Health Technology Initiative promises to be an important, impactful effort as a public-private partnership.

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Best Buy Bets on AgingTech in the Expanding Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

With the acquisition of GreatCall, a mature player in the aging-tech space, Best Buy is doubling down on consumer health technology@retail. the electronics retailer, it’s out with CDs and in with technology for aging at home. This week at Best Buy. The company announced that it would buy GreatCall for $800 million.

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The Importance of the Digital Front Door™ in Healthcare

Digital Health Today

For example, if we look at the way hospitals are designed today, they are all about reducing foot traffic for doctors and nurses, not about a great patient experience. So I hope that we can use digital technologies to help us re-humanize the process and digital patient experience. Q3: What does re-humanizing mean?