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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

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Whether a menu of care options including virtual health to access specialists across the U.S., post-hospital virtual visits, or hospital care at-home, a majority of Americans supports a new era of care delivery, as PwC coins the broad landscape of telehealth.

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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

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Furthermore, net neutrality is also an important underpinning for fast health care connections that deliver access to telehealth and virtual health channels that can scale care to under-served people, patients, and caregivers.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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This, too, was a challenge for people who needed health care at home, to avoid contact to avoid the risk of being exposed to the virus. But many students lacked access to either or both the physical technology and the data plan-on-ramp to the Internet.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

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Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

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It’s these very consumer-facing technologies featured at CES that can bolster information-gathering at the N of 1 patient, self-caring in the Age of Corona at home.

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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

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Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”. But it appears that while healthcare providers’ spirits are willing, their flesh (that is, actions) are weak.

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#Engage4Health: How Patients Are Morphing Into Healthcare Consumers, for #HIMSS18

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This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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