Health Populi October 8, 2021
A new look into Americans’ views on health privacy from Morning Consult provides a current snapshot on citizens’ concerned embrace of technology — worried pragmatism, let’s call it.
This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies.
More Boomers are concerned with health data app privacy than Gen Z consumers, as the chart illustrates.
46% of U.S. adults said that health monitoring apps were not an invasion of privacy; 32% said they were, Morning Consult found.
Even so, 2 in 3 adults said they would likely get an app to...