CIO survey finds mobile-enabled healthcare a top trend
There are more market research reports, survey results and industry metrics related to mobile and digital health floating around these days than in years past: Our recently published State of the...
View ArticleSurveys look at digital health adoption, reasons for hesitance
Several surveys were released this past week at — or coinciding with — HIMSS, focusing on different areas of consumer engagement in digital health. The Atlantic surveyed 1,000 US residents, finding...
View ArticleSurvey: Employee wellness still seems ripe for digital health
A recent survey of almost 800 large and mid-size employers in the US, representing more than 7 million employees, found that a majority offer incentives to employees for agreeing to take health risk...
View ArticleSeven in ten doctors have a self-tracking patient
Seventy percent of doctors report that at least one patient is sharing some form of health measurement data with them, according to Manhattan Research’s annual “Taking the Pulse” online survey of 2,950...
View ArticleMobile health is touted as affordable, but costs still seen as barrier
The mobile industry’s GSM Association recently funded a survey of 2,000 healthcare providers, patients and consumers in four different countries to better understand the perceptions they had about...
View ArticleMost patients want their doctors to prescribe apps
A staggering 90 percent of chronic patients in the US would accept a mobile app prescription from their physician, as opposed to only 66 percent willing to accept a prescription of medication,...
View ArticleDigitas Health: Patients whose doctors use apps use more apps themselves
Patients of doctors who use mobile apps in the exam room are more likely to use apps themselves, and more likely to switch medications, according to a new study from communication firm Digitas Health....
View ArticleUS seniors want more online, mobile health tools
Older Americans are using the internet more and more, and they are particularly interested in using online and mobile technology for health-related purposes, according to a new study from Accenture...
View ArticleFrost & Sullivan names mHealth as top 2013 trend
Research firm Frost & Sullivan listed mHealth among the top three hot topics in healthcare in 2013, garnered from a global survey of 1,835 executives, about 260 of whom worked in the healthcare...
View ArticleIntel: Half of patients trust themselves as much as their doctors to...
A survey from Intel suggests that 57 percent of people worldwide believe hospitals will be obsolete at some point in the future. The survey of 12,000 people from eight countries, conducted in August,...
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