Archive | July, 2010

Women are the digital mainstream – especially in health

By on July 30, 2010 in Baby Boomers and Health, Entertainment and health, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Health social networks, Internet Demographics, Mobile health, Retail health, Women and health

Social networking is key to women’s experience with the Internet, according to comScore’s report, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet. Women spend 39% more time on social networks online than men do. comScore studied the “Mars versus Venus” differences between men and women online, discovering that gender stereotypes only go so far. The chart shows [...]

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People use the cloud for photos and e-mail, not health information

By on July 29, 2010 in Global Health, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Internet and Health, Mobile health

People trust the Internet “cloud” to manage many parts of their personal information, especially photos, e-mail correspondence, contacts, and videos. But personal health and financial information? Not so much. The chart illustrates that only 1 in 5 global citizens use the cloud to manage personal health information. KPMG‘s report, Consumers & Convergence IV,  highlights peoples’ [...]

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Health reform = meaningful use among health executives

By on July 28, 2010 in Electronic health records, Health care information technology, Health Quality, Health reform, Hospital finance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA

Meeting meaningful use for inpatient EHRs is the top priority among the many challenges health executives face when considering how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will impact their organizations. Overall, 2 in 3 health execs place MU for inpatient EHRs as the “highest priority;” among health IT executives, the proportion citing this as the [...]

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Running out money in retirement: the role of health costs

By on July 26, 2010 in Baby Boomers and Health, Employers, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health regulation, Public health

1 in 2 Baby Boomers born between 1948 and 1954 planning to retire in the first wave of Boomer retirements is at-risk of running out of money in retirement, according to the EBRI Retirement Readiness Rating. The Rating gauges just how prepared retirees are to finance their lives when they retire. This is defined as the [...]

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Consumers go generic, both in and outside of health care

By on July 23, 2010 in Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health engagement, Popular culture and health, Retail health

1 in 2 Americans are purchasing more generic brands, and 2 in 3 are brown-bagging lunch, according to a HarrisInteractive survey into consumers’ buying patterns 30 months into the recession. Titled, Americans Still Cutting Back on the Little Things to Save Money, Harris’s poll discovered that U.S. consumers are making a lot of micro-changes on a [...]

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