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

Health Populi

Across all of the tech categories AARP studies, younger-elders between 50 and 59 tend to demonstrate higher levels of device adoption than people 70 and older. Under the current privacy regime of HIPAA for healthcare, indeed, we are. legislators can get on the same privacy page.

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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Health Populi

have a smart people at home, only 1 in 13 Americans have used a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant for health care. But over one-half of consumers would like to access a voice assistant for some aspect of their health care, according to a study from Orbita and Voicebot , Voice Assistant Consumer Adoption in Healthcare.

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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

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. 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%).

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. This is crucial because many patients today are frustrated with the lack of connection to their providers.

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

Health Populi

Rock Health has conducted a consumer digital health study for several years, giving us the ability to compare longitudinal findings from year to year. The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews.

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Health Consumers Are Now Amazon-Primed for Healthcare – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 2

Health Populi

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. Joseph Health. In many countries, personal healthcare data are subject to strict regulation.

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M&A notebook: Providers and platforms make big moves

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Froedtert Health and ThedaCare in Wisconsin are also merging and hope to unify quickly and launch as an 18-hospital system before the close of the year. Read HITN Managing Editor Bill Siwicki's recent Froedtert-focused case study here. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy: