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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

Nearly one-half of consumers also said they’d be comfortable receiving health services from a technology company like Google or Microsoft. This is consistent with a previous survey by PwC’s firm Strategy& conducted several years ago which asked consumers what industries they would trust to help them manage their health.

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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

A survey from Turquoise Health found prices for “shoppable services” in healthcare are increasing roughly at the pace of inflation , though some vaccines have seen price increases of more than 20%. Medically Home added Arcadian Health , a Louisiana-based mobile health service, to its network.

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IHE Winter 2020

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SNIF - Survey of Network Interfaces Form This is a whitepaper outlining a problem that is faced by many healthcare software or device vendors when they attempt to integrate with a customer environment such as a hospital or clinic. There are two actors defined: Terminology Repository and Terminology Consumer.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

The program also supports independent mobile app developers who target providers and patients. App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. Previously, Epic wouldn’t let mobile app developers connect to its EMR until a customer requested permission on their behalf.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.