"virtual care" articles

  Parks Associates is supporting Health 2.0 on October 7th-8th 2010 in San Francisco, CA. Health 2.0 always features the most comprehensive line-up of technology innovators, as well as leaders in health care, government and finance, and unveils the best new health care technology startups at Launch! You won’t want to miss the Fourth Annual Health 2.0 Conference. For more information please click here .

Parks Associates' groundbreaking consumer survey Uptake of Personal Health Tools & Services reveals important consumer insights on personal health technologies. Almost 20% of U.S. consumers who care for an ill family member are willing to pay out-of-pocket for a home health monitoring service, almost double the number who would purchase the service for themselves, according to Parks Associates. Uptake of Personal Health Tools & Services finds consumer motivations for adopting...

The U.S. government’s recent EMR (electronic medical records) incentive will trickle down to benefit personal health record (PHR) providers over the next few years, raising awareness among consumers and pushing total number of PHR users over 100 million by 2014, according to Electronic Health Records: Information Center of Connected Care. This new industry report from international research firm Parks Associates notes that the $19 billion financial incentive from the U.S. federal...

For anyone following the Health Care Reform Summit yesterday (25 February, 2010), consensus may not be a word that comes readily to mind. However, despite the diversity of concepts and ideas expressed at the gathering there was one that did not meet with debate from either party, i.e., the need for better overall healthcare coordination. Throughout the debate, on both sides of the table, as theories over what could or should be done to improve the American Healthcare system were being...

Parks Associates is supporting T he Burrill Consumer Digital Health Meeting to be held March 22-23rd in Burlingame, CA. Burrill & Company, in association with the University of Illinois, Mayo Clinic, and Pfizer, is for the first time holding The Burrill Consumer Digital Health Meeting to help prepare the life sciences community for this new era. Learn how PDAs and smartphones will become personal healthcare assistants capable of receiving vital signs and even body fluid samples...

Parks Associates supports Digital Health Summit at CES on January 9, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Harry Wang , Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will be a panelist on the session "Consumers Driving Healthcare: Capitalizing on the Opportunities" on January 9 from 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM. In the US alone spending for chronic disease management is expected to increase from $500 billion a year to $685 billion by 2020. Consumers are on–the-go...

Harry Wang , Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will be moderating the panel "Chronic Disease Management and Care Compliance Assurance" at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2009 in San Diego on Thursday, October 8, at 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM in room 29B. Combating rising healthcare costs is a top priority in our nation’s economic struggle. This session will explore the application of wireless to chronic disease management for the benefit of...

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will present "Market Trends, PHR Buzz, & Wireless for Healthcare: Implications for Continua" on Wednesday, October 7th at the Continua Health Alliance Fall Summit in Boston, MA. This two-hour presentation have three mini-tracks that will cover the latest market trends in the personal health technology market, discuss adoption trends and use cases of Personal Health Records (PHR), and...