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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Digital health in Africa is a rapidly growing field, with the potential to improve access to healthcare and quality of care across the continent. Cost: Digital health technologies can be expensive, which can make them inaccessible to low-income populations.

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Only 1 in 4 People Over 50 Use a Mobile Health App – And They Tend to Be Healthier and Wealthier

Health Populi

use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. A recent Rock Health report looked at the “unprecedented market” for aging-in-place and addressing health technologies focused on older peoples’ self-care.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

The adoption of patient and caregiver-facing tools (which may include appointment apps, remote patient monitoring for self-management of chronic diseases, a standardized enhanced patient portal/communications platform, digital patient education tools, telehealth video conferencing, and others) can generate a message of patients as a priority.

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Digital Health: The Future of Patient Experience | Event Recap

Waracle

Optimising the patient experience is a tangible route to competitive advantage for any organisation invested in human health and wellbeing. Health technology is transforming the patient-facing medical journey while backroom solutions improve the capabilities of clinical staff. Check out the entire event below. Key Takeaways.

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HIPAA Considerations When Adding Video Calling To a Health App

SightCall

As an example, the covered entity could be a health insurance company while the business associate could be a startup that utilizes Protected Health Information (PHI) for its mHealth app. HIPAA compliant data storage is a hot topic for every mHealth startup handling PHI. Developers Hate HIPAA. Although the U.S.

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