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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

Aside from the technology challenges, which are not trivial, physicians do concur with consumers about the potential benefits of virtual care to expand access, provide convenience to patients, and enable connections in-between office appointment times. Watch this space and don’t blink: virtual care will soon be, simply, “healthcare.”.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S. adults 18 years of age and over between October 2017 and January 2018 for this survey.

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HIMSS24: Showcasing Clinical Benefits from Digital Health

Xealth

The largest gathering of healthcare technology professionals worldwide, HIMSS24 descended on Orlando with decades of health tech innovation permeating through the halls filled with 35,000 passionate professionals. While Disney World offered a backdrop, that was where the fantasy ended. In fact, 63% of U.S.

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Healthcare Consumerism – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

That’s where we’ll see a tipping point. There is a lot of attention paid to wearable technology, but those devices simply deliver patients data on their own health without actionable insights. In a related development, home-enabled healthcare technology is taking off and is expected to more than double by 2031.

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Why It's Time to Embrace Telemedicine

eVisit

I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world. What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new!