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

Health Populi

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style style GDPR?

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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. 4 What Are Data Brokers and How Can They Hurt Your Clients?

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

In a few short weeks, the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) is set to deliver an official recommendation on the topic of Stage 3’s patient engagement requirements to the ONC. care partners or those who assist them) to help address a health concern.”. But suffice to say there’s a small storm-a-comin.’

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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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Apple’s Health Records App: A Ripple or a Roar?

mHealth Insight

This blog post by Dr Joe Kvedar reflecting on Apple’s Health Record announcement makes for interesting reading ( I’m very optimistic about what this means for Patients and Carers ). mHealth Insight. But I can’t help but recall similar attempts to create health data repositories for patients on their mobile devices.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). mHealth Insights. health care spending, 3 so the promise of mobile health is especially attractive.” Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., More than 40% of U.S. “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

The blurring of mobile and digital into overall business process is a meta-trend for the global economy, and certainly for the health care ecosystem. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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