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

Health Populi

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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

Health Populi

. “My physician” is the most trusted data steward, with 72% of consumers willing to share health data with “their” personal doctors. Only 11% of consumers said in 2018 that they’d be willing to share health data with them. Tech companies? In the U.S.,

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

Health Populi

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

I’m also especially keen, from the patient privacy perspective, to hear my close colleagues Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis explain the “Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins?

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

While Europeans in the room — remembering two of the major sponsors of the meeting were Essilor (based in France) and Luxxotica (based in Italy) — are covered by the GDPR for privacy of personal data, Americans are barely covered by a patchwork privacy quilt of HIPAA, GINA, COPPA (for children online), and other bits of policy.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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