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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

Health Populi

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style style GDPR?

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Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

Digital Health Global

The utilization of digital tools and technologies, such as telemedicine and electronic health records (EHRs), has made it easier for patients to access medical services and information, regardless of their location. This has made medical services more accessible and convenient for patients, especially those in rural or remote areas.

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

Health Populi

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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How Remote Patient Monitoring Technology Enhances Communication and Care Delivery

Clear Arch Health

With ongoing advancements in healthcare technology, remote patient monitoring (RPM) continues to demonstrate efficicacy as a powerful tool for enhancing patient/care team communication and improving patient outcomes. This proactive data transmission offers numerous benefits for both patients and healthcare providers.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care. The first chart illustrates patients’ use of tech and tools for health and fitness by country studied. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors. In the case of the U.S.,

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%.

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Digital self-management emerging as a new high growth HealthTech sub-sector in 2024

Lloyd Price

The growth of the digital self-management market is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, the rising demand for personalized healthcare, and the growing adoption of mobile health (mHealth) technologies. link] What exactly is Digital self-management? billion in funding, up from $8.9

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