H&HN January 24, 2017
Kenneth Kaufman

Success involves transforming health systems for the Internet economy

The internet has launched a digital revolution in virtually every corner of the economy, from transportation to entertainment and from retail to telecommunications. In comparison with the rest of the economy, health care has been slow to feel the internet’s influence. The internet’s inexorable spread, however, is reaching health care in a big way.

Consumer adoption of video-based telemedicine more than tripled from 2015 to 2016, with the majority of that growth occurring in the last three months of the year, according to a study by Rock Health. Among millennials, 48 percent go online to find a physician, 42 percent have sought medical care or advice over live video and...

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Topics: Health IT, Health System / Hospital, IoT (Internet of Things), mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Retail care, Telehealth
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