article thumbnail

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

Health Populi

In 2019, few health care providers have adopted voice assistants into their workflows. The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance.

HIPAA 174
article thumbnail

The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The New Kid on the Block: How Blockchain Can Revolutionize Access to Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

Decentralization is a powerful tool that can allow us to access fragmented data efficiently and securely. HIPAA is upheld and auditing is easy. Digital health companies can use health data to implement artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models and algorithms. The answer lies in decentralization.

article thumbnail

How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

Health Populi

9 in 10 hospitals and health systems prioritize improving the consumer/patient experience, but only 30% of providers are building these capabilities, I wrote in the Health Populi blog discussing Kaufman Hall’s research. Enter the enterprise health cloud (EHC).

HIPAA 136
article thumbnail

Maximizing Patient Outcomes with Remote Care Management

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The goal of this article is to examine the various tools and technologies available for RCM and to explore the most effective ways, including remote patient monitoring (RPM), to implement them for optimal patient outcomes. This helps HCPs to intervene early if there are any signs of deterioration in patients’ health.

article thumbnail

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

Health Populi

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

article thumbnail

The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

That’s one barrier overcome to get smartphone health apps into the hands of people dealing with the many tasks involved with managing chronic disease. It’s not the only barrier, and not a panacea; but it’s an important one in terms of a potential on-ramp to self-health tools.

Nursing 325