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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks. ” The point is that claiming our mental health now IS mainstream… whatever your age or stage.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

I myself used the blogging platform you’re on now to promote the February ’22 issue of Health Affairs in the Hot Points following my post featuring Abner Mason’s origin story on Love and Health which traced his boyhood in Durham, NC, to founding ConsejoSano, now SameSky Health. [By

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Health Consumers Are Now Amazon-Primed for Healthcare – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 2

Health Populi

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. Joseph Health. Expanding Alexa skills to join the growing tele-mental health supply side.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. 2 While mHealth apps may have improved needed care access, some have secretly collected and sold sensitive mental health information to other companies.3 Health Tech Magazine, September 23, 2020.

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Bonus Features – March 5, 2023 – Two-thirds of patients connect with regular docs when they need medical care when traveling, half of clinical workflow automation users plan to expand their use, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Becker’s Healthcare and OmniLife Health reported that 30% of health systems and transplant centers use clinical workflow automation , and 48% of those organizations plan to expand its use. The Puerto Rico Health Information Exchange committed to joining Health Gorilla’s anticipated QHIN.

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Pay people for their data – yes, or no?

Society for Participatory Medicine

Startups Plan the Health Data Gold Rush – The Scientist. image credit: CIO Magazine]. Intellectual property’s vital role in healthcare’s AI-driven future – Pharmaphorum.

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Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DirectTrust released the finalized criteria for the Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP) Participant program , aligning accreditation requirements with the requirements necessary to participate with a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2023.

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