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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

Health Populi

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. The authors look through both clinician and consumer lenses.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

eClinicalWorks completed Phase 1 of the QHIN application process , while the CommonWell Health Alliance intends to complete its application in early 2024 amid launching a new platform. Medically Home added Arcadian Health , a Louisiana-based mobile health service, to its network.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

Another important data point in this consumer-tech environmental analysis is that more people are open to artificial intelligence baked into the tasks of daily living, shown in the third chart. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Our homes are undergoing “the great home makeover,” Steve described.

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AWS announces healthcare workforce accelerator cohort

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Others, meanwhile, are focused on remote monitoring, secure information exchange, patient engagement, mobile health workforce and training tools. A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. Rose Health. Kare Mobile. Hypercare. Supportiv.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. Quite recently, health-tech app developers were frustrated by lack of smartphone penetration among older people — lots of the very folks who could benefit from self-tracking data that can be useful for managing chronic conditions.

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

Health Populi

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. In the case of the Rule, the data will be provided to us via our smartphones.