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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

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“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. Ascension is the second largest health system in the U.S., health care. Let’s talk about Technology and Trust.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

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Tracking health information doesn’t result in better outcomes in and of itself, Deloitte’s report recognizes: it takes environmental nudges, like behavioral economic strategies and public policies like healthy agricultural supports and active transportation, to move people toward healthy behaviors and sustain them.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

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health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

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There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. That data powers new relationships and programs, Marc explained. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

Partnering, too, will be important on the road to digitization in health care across the three industry segments. specialty medicines), and people expect greater levels of retail-enhanced service from health care providers, plans, and pharma companies.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

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Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.