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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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Americans Growing Health Consumer Muscles and Knowledge: McKinsey

Health Populi

The first chart shows consumers’ concerns about health care expenses over time, comparing perceptions in 2009 and 2017. By 2017, just under one-half of Americans were concerned about healthcare and health insurance costs, and 34% concerned about routing medical expenses. healthcare), emergency room, and urgent care.

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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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World Economic Forum 2024: What were the key Healthcare Technology talking points?

Lloyd Price

Enhancing Mental Health Care: The potential of AI to personalize therapy and provide accessible mental health resources was highlighted, especially in underserved areas. Discussions focused on how to strengthen healthcare systems to be better prepared for future pandemics and other global health challenges.

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A Romanticised History of SPM

Society for Participatory Medicine

“Doc Tom” Ferguson (Wikipedia) envisioned health care as an equal partnership between e-patients and health professionals and systems that support them. A true visionary, less than a year after the Mozilla browser arrived he published a pair of slides that showed how “information age healthcare” would turn medicine on its head.

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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.

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Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, Founder of Grapevine Health

Digital Health Today

Lisa Fitzpatrick, a physician, medical epidemiologist and founder of Grapevine Health. Grapevine Health creates and delivers trusted and relatable health information to underserved communities, with the goal of empowering people to adopt good habits and take charge of their health. Health literacy.