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

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Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health.

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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

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The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The top interest health care categories for voice assistants are asking about illness symptoms above all, cited by one-third of consumers.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

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But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

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Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”. Most consumers deem healthcare providers to be good data stewards , researchers from frog, the designer consultancy, found.

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#Engage4Health: How Patients Are Morphing Into Healthcare Consumers, for #HIMSS18

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The frequency of cybersecurity breaches in health systems is a risk factor eroding patient trust. To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA. Finally, healthcare costs are top-of-mind for patients in the U.S.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

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(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health). .”

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