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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

Bill Of Health

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) health apps, such as apps that manage our diet, fitness, and sleep, are becoming ubiquitous in our digital world. These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Medical imaging, AI, and the cloud: what’s next?

Cloud Blogs

Trends As we move forward and the digital transformation of healthcare continues to accelerate, I see three significant trends that will influence the future of health and wellness. Virtual care has the capacity to personalize, accelerate, and augment treatment and prevention, saving time and money while improving outcomes.

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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know

HIT Consultant

Having early insight into abnormal blood sugar activity or body functioning can help individuals prevent health conditions from worsening. With the rise in digital health services, we have a wide variety of data at the tip of our fingers – accessible from nearly anywhere on a smartphone or computer.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

As the OMRON VitalSight, described above, demonstrates, more consumer-facing digital health technologies are bridging patients and doctors, and patients and hospitals. As we’ve been so focused on digital health tech, it’s timely to note that Google recently completed its purchase of Fitbit for $2.1