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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

Health Populi

. “Regulators should focus on full transparency, requiring sharing as opposed to privacy policies…privacy will become an important social determinant of health.” Our digital life- and health-styles require that level of personal data ownership, control, and stewardship. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

The blurring of mobile and digital into overall business process is a meta-trend for the global economy, and certainly for the health care ecosystem. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr. Chris Gibbons of Johns Hopkins University, who wrote about Broadband as a Health Imperative back in 2014.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). mHealth Insights. health care spending, 3 so the promise of mobile health is especially attractive.” Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., More than 40% of U.S.

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mHealth13: Lots Going On, But Few New Developments

Chilmark Research

Another year, another mHealth Summit. HIMSS’ younger sibling has slowly grown over the last five years, a period that has seen a Precambrian explosion of companies and advances in mobile tech. However, despite some early hints of maturity, the mHealth Summit revealed the mobile healthcare market’s overall identity confusion.

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2013 Year in Review

eHealth

” Since joining HIMSS, I have traveled to the Arlington office and to the mHealth Summit in DC. Great meeting on Mobile Health from the the Venture Summit, to the Danish Health Minister to Esther Dyson and other thought leaders on topics like disruption, global health and business models.

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 2001 to 2014, deaths due to overdoses in the USA were noted as: 8 fold increase due to prescription drugs. We are all aware of the opioid epidemic and the human destruction in its wake. However statistics have an impact that reaches beyond qualitative descriptions.