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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. As a result, most U.S.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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

Health Populi

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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Focus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

At the same time, the technology market presents growing complexity, worsening privacy issues, and interoperability limitations, while not effectively lowering the cost of access or the price of useful devices. At 65, older adults have longer life expectancy than previous generations.

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We are the guinea pigs in cars and online

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Even though half of people in a recent survey said they might leave, it’s still very popular among all age groups. Could it be because there is no interoperability between health systems used by doctors and multiple hospital systems? But have people really left? Or have they just read websites telling them how to leave ?

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. There remain many opportunities for technologies to assist in achieving true interoperability. From a provider standpoint. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces. Clinical trials.

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Therapy App “Innovation” – Research into Mental Health Apps, Part I

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Researchers assessed the quality and safety of treatment apps across six categories: app origin and accessibility, privacy and security, clinical foundation, features and engagement, inputs and outputs, and interoperability.