Health Populi August 27, 2018
Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters.
Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity.
But only one in four people had used wearable technology for health, and one in five had participated in a live video telemedicine encounter.
The Rock Health team observes that “the needle has not moved equally across every type of digital health solution.” Thus the team’s choice of title for the report:...