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

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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What's ahead for health IT policy and legislation in 2023 

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He noted that previous legislation with funding for broadband, like the 2009 American Recovery and Resiliency Act, defined what needed to be done to access funding. Another priority for members is seeing CMS getting more in lock-step with Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, and qualified health information networks.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. platform – a very interesting story in its own right.