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Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.” Seven in ten U.S.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. Now, his forecast is mainstream.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

The pandemic ushered in millions of peoples’ first digital health experiences, many of which will persist according to the 23rd Annual U.S. CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S. adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. Eleven years later, Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

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 Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

When it comes to sharing data, patients are most comfortable doing it for reasons related to treatment (71%) as compared to payment (39%), operations (28%), or public health (23%). Among organizations surveyed, 64% rely on external expertise for project planning and 71% do so for production.

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Federal Trade Commission Gets Involved in GoodRx Telehealth Company Crackdown

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 Misrepresented its HIPAA Compliance.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

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.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

.” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them. This picture of U.S.

Life Science

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on. Few people in the U.S.

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Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen

Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). The Scorecard was developed to gauge the progress (and lack thereof) of patient information access afforded by peoples’ health care providers.

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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian , SVP Product Management at Reltio When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time.

Life Science

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In 2019, Fitbit unveiled a more data-driven personal health subscription service for consumers that, among other features, generates personal reports that a user can download and share with their physician, nutritionist or personal trainer. One product is called the eCareCoordinator clinical dashboard.

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Americans Most-Trust Health Care Providers With Their Data – But Are They Right To Do So?

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Americans most-trust their doctors, their banks, and their hospitals to protect their personal information. I pose, prompted by this month’s survey from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on data privacy and e-cigarettes. Are people clear-headed about this perception?

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The Monetary, Clinical and Ethical Value of Patient Data – A View from the UK and NHS

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

It is worth reviewing the Appendices of this report, which detail company-specific use of datasets and estimates of the market value for using that information by company. Some of the names mentioned are Allscripts, athenahealth, Alibaba Health Information Technology Ltd., Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the U.S.,

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Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

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

The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

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

The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Federal Trade Commission Gets Involved in GoodRx Telehealth Company Crackdown

The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen

The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Americans Most-Trust Health Care Providers With Their Data – But Are They Right To Do So?

The Monetary, Clinical and Ethical Value of Patient Data – A View from the UK and NHS

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