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

Health Populi

This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis.

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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC/AARP) report is dated 2014 – and focuses on a vision for what caregiving technology should be. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. Help Yelp Serve Families with Information about Nursing Homes. Voice First and Health – What’s Notable and Not So Much?

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Brigham and Women’s Primary Practice Pilots New Mobile App to Drive Patient Engagement & Collaborative Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

A 2010 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report on C hronic Care : Making the Case for Ongoing Care states that eighty-five percent of all health care spending was on people with chronic conditions. In the December 2014 PwC Health Research Institute (HRI) Report, two relevant health directions are described.

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3 Quick Thoughts on Apple Watch

Chilmark Research

Apple’s announcement will bring digital health closer into the mainstream, but by how much remains to be seen. Samsung has been relentless in pushing their Gear smartwatches out to consumers over the last two years, selling half a million units in Q1 of this 2014 alone. My head was spinning with potential ideas for clinical use cases.

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#PGHD: Buzzword to Business

Chilmark Research

Claims data anchors us as patients to the transactions we take part in, while EHR data is more robust but rooted largely in what happens in those magical 12 minutes we spend with some nurses and a doctor. Is there more that goes into “a 360 degree view” of our health? Yes to both.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). For two consecutive years, the health system was named among the Best Places to Work in Illinois.

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Dr. Patti Brennan – #SPM2018 speaker preview “Supporting the Care Between the Care: The Role of the National Library of Medicine”

Society for Participatory Medicine

17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. In addition to being extremely participatory, perhaps it’s no coincidence that she’s the first woman nurse and the first nurse in the post. — Hugo Campos (@HugoOC) December 8, 2014. Register here. — Sara Riggare ??

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