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

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are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. 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.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Telehealth happens across the U.S. Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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

Health Populi

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

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Topics expected to be covered include the Gulf Cooperation Counci’s (GCC) collaboration on CDC surveillance, as well as exploring how data has been used to improve disease mapping across the region. For example, the telehealth market continues to mature in a post-pandemic world – particularly in more developed countries.

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

Health Populi

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

Health Populi

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity. One of many questions for U.S.