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The Tik Tok’ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctors’ and Patients’ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

Health Populi

believe that the medical mis-information problem is worsening, learned in survey research from Merck Manuals. This program includes a tool patients can use to “authenticate” medical information using the acronym “STANDS:” S ource: Does the resource cite recognized authorities and provide their credentials?

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. As the report concludes, “people’s sentiments and behaviors” with respect to technology in health care “provide no clear answer.”

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

Digital health companies represented 60% of the sample, the other 40% of which were consulting firms, subsidiaries of providers/payers/life science companies and tech corporations, and investors. As Matthew called out, the digital health sector has a relatively rosy outlook in the pandemic economy.

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Evidation selected by Our Future Health as participant platform for UK’s largest Health Research program

Digital Health Global

Our Future Health will deploy Evidation’s enterprise digital health engagement and measurement platform to conduct a multi-year, longitudinal research program for up to five million participants across the UK. About Our Future Health Our Future Health is a collaboration between the public, private and charity sectors.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The other appeals to researchers in the life sciences and clinical settings. But there are clinically validated tools to ask about some problems.