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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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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.

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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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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

Health Populi

Across the four types of tech studied, it’s smartphones that top the list of penetration in rural areas (at 71%), closely followed by computers (desktop or laptop, with 69% adoption), broadband (at 63%) and tablets in fourth/last place (49%).

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

Lloyd Price

Examples include telehealth, e-prescriptions, and patient portals. Health information technology (HIT): This refers to the use of information technology to store, manage, and analyze healthcare data. This includes digital health technologies, as well as medical devices, health information technology (IT), and genomics.

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Patient Engagement and Patient Portals by 2030

Lloyd Price

This will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing availability of high-speed internet, the growing popularity of mobile devices, and the government's efforts to promote the use of health information technology (HIT). Hospital patient portals have several advantages, both for patients and healthcare providers.