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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Healthcare It News

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals. This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data.

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Advancing Health Equity by Addressing The Health Data Desert

HIT Consultant

Alok Mandal, Head of Healthcare Consulting, Virtusa Massive disparities continue to plague healthcare in the United States. Health equity means ensuring that health resources and services are accessible and affordable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, geography, ethnicity, or financial circumstances.

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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. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

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Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare

HIT Consultant

From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. Though healthcare organizations have historically been slower to adopt cloud, we’re now seeing renewed interest. But first – why has healthcare lagged other industries in cloud adoption?

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

Health Populi

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research. adults polled. adults polled. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

The latest report from Philips Future Health Index series attests to that, and to clinicians’ general recognition that telehealth has been crucial in the early phase of the crisis. Collaboration is a top priority for doctors. 53% of younger doctors said AI would have improved their pandemic experience.

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Why CTA’s Shepherding AI Is Important for Re-Imagining Healthcare

Health Populi

Some of the long list includes AT&T, AdvaMed, Amazon, and the ATA (formerly known as the American Telemedicine Association), Brookings, Doctor on Demand, Fitbit, Google, Humana, Mercedes, Microsoft, Philips, Validic and Verizon, among others. The list is long, and runs through most of the alphabet from “A” to “X.”