Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Smartphone adoption among older people grew by 50% since 2014, rising from 48% adoption among people 50+ to 79%. Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The Act defines “consumers” as people residing in Washington state as well as people whose health data is collected in Washington and those identified through quote, “unique identifiers.”

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

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. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. believe that data privacy “is a thing of the past,” MITRE’s summary coined, with older people (Boomers and Seniors) most likely to feel that way. The Harris Poll conducted the study among 2,065 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses. A few over-arching findings: Consumers’ views of sharing health data depend on context.

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