Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

The top-line findings alone provide an important baseline profile of TYAs’ use of the internet for health never before described. Nearly 9 in 10 young adults have gone online to seek health information. Two-thirds have used a mobile app related to health. adults, found in other studies.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

On the negative side of digital health consumer-think, consumers highlight risk above all in the dark side of digital, following by artificial intelligence, privacy, and data protection. To that end, most workers would be willing to share their personal health information to ensure high quality care and receive customized services.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The top-demanded health consumer digital health applications included, The ability to find doctors and make appointments online, for 51% of people. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%. Finally, 33% of Americans are comfortable (net) sharing their health information with tech companies.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For more on the connected car as a third-space for health care, see my post from CES 2017, Your car as a mobile health platform. In the meantime, Amazon announced several HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills in April 2019 that will be just the beginning of this fast-growing phenomenon for voice assistants in health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information. In the meantime, Deloitte reminds us that the smartphone is most peoples’ personal health platform.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

For CHCF that year, I wrote Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Being Tracked and Used , I took cues from a 60 Minutes ‘ profile of third-party data brokers and Latanya Sweeney’s groundbreaking research at the Harvard Privacy Lab.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: There’s a new social determinant of health in town, and it’s broadband connectivity. Without access to broadband, an individual can’t seek a job online, get banked, apply for health insurance, or access a health information portal, among many other daily tasks EveryWoman and EveryMan do to streamline life.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some of the key behaviors Deloitte gauged to measure health care consumerism were, Increasing use of technology and willingness to share personal health information. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. Levels of self-efficacy and prevention. Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care.

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NiftyHMS

MARCH 5, 2023

Electronic health records (EHRs) or Health Information Management System (HIMS): HIMS provides patients with easy access to their medical records, allowing them to review their medical history, test results, and medications. Here is how Digitization helps patients: 1.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

More would like to use tech to access and transmit personal health information to their doctors, to monitor health issues, along with health and fitness improvement goals. More older people have signed on to social networks to keep in touch with friends and grandchildren, and are using smarter phones and tablets.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2022

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, CEO and Founder of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS). While mobile technologies and smartphone use have become completely mainstream, adoption in health care falls dramatically short. But despite health care advancements, cutting-edge […].

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Continuing Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telemedicine, however, is more specific and refers to the use of electronic services allowing doctors to communicate with other doctors and give consultations to patients without an office visit.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 28, 2020

Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. You can now search for health information online, simply by typing in your symptoms. Mobile health. Wearables .

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Mobile Health Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They frequently move, and with the option to work on the go, it will be critical for health systems to mobilize patient data with the individual. While health IT will help care for mobile patients, ensuring the technology is secure must also be the top priority. Meeting Mobile Health Challenges.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 19, 2018

A well-rounded clinician needs to understand not only clinical information, but also the validity and precision of technological information that mobile health apps are now collecting on patients.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Webinar recording is available that covers the Document Sharing Health Information Exchange (HIE) on FHIR. This is available on the IHE YouTube channel The slide deck with embedded recording is in the IT-Infrastructure github repo The content for this presentation are baked into the IHE Mobile Health Documents Sharing (MHDS) profile.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 23, 2022

Links: IHE IT Infrastructure Whitepapers and Handbooks Cookbook: Preparing the IHE Profile Security Section De-Identification Handbook Algorithm Mapping Spreadsheet Document Sharing Metadata Handbook Template for XDS Affinity Domain Deployment Planning Access Control Enabling Document Sharing Health Information Exchange Using IHE Profiles Security (..)

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 8, 2023

One trend that is likely to continue is the integration of patient portals with electronic health record (EHR) systems. This will allow patients to access their medical records, test results, and other health information more easily, and enable healthcare providers to share information more effectively.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 5, 2024

Formal Publication -- [link] The Sharing of IPS (sIPS) IHE Profile provides for methods of exchanging the HL7 International Patient Summary (IPS) , using IHE Document Sharing Health Information Exchange but does not modify the HL7 IPS specification, nor is there any need to change IHE Document Sharing Health Information Exchange.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But trust is a precursor to health engagement, so trust can be a barrier to patients and providers working together to improve healthcare. In addition to the EHR/screen-time challenge, there’s also a data/health information concern: patients expect health providers to be good data stewards, protecting personal health information.

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Mend

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mobile health technology allows patients to this. Patients can easily access their health information. Improved self-management: Patients can use portals to track and manage their health conditions. Enhanced communication: Mobile health technology can promote communication between patients and healthcare providers.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 13, 2022

In addition to the conversion, the scope of the Access Control Decision and Enforcement is expanded beyond the Document Repository to the other services in a Health Information Exchange -- Community. Very focused on #FHIR, but also enabled by existing and successful XDS/XCA Health Information Exchange.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 27, 2025

She brings a broad and unique understanding of the digital health market and cutting-edge health innovationsincluding artificial intelligence and machine learning, remote monitoring tools, electronic health records (EHRs), mobile health applications, digital therapeutics, health data platforms, and data analytics tools.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

These benefits can’t be realized in healthcare without the enterprise health cloud ensuring privacy and security. Mobile apps do pose challenges for protecting digitized personal health information (PHI).

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This week is the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society, and I’ll be covering it on behalf of the Center for Total Health blog. We are sharing mobile health innovations and apps, and we’re talking about the consumer side of health IT.

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Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

Public vs. Private Oversight of Mobile Health. In its simplest form, CommonWell will establish a set of standards and services that enable query-based health information sharing in a heterogeneous EHR environment. Below are abstracts from this month’s update. John Moore III.

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