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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. Our digital life- and health-styles require that level of personal data ownership, control, and stewardship.

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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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The 5 minute download on the NYeC Conference 2013

American Well

While my boss probably sent me with the purpose of evangelizing the idea of telehealth at each opportunity, I spent much of my time in wonderment of the brilliant (and often bizarre) world of health information exchange. What does this mean to you?

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. s National Health Service.

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Digital health start-ups in India: The challenge of scale

Lloyd Price

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) pegged the Indian Healthcare Information and Communications Technology (ICT) market at a whopping US$ 1 billion in 2014. A major portion of the projected growth is expected to be driven by digital health start-ups. The industry was expected to grow 1.5

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

Society for Participatory Medicine

On top of that, she was the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s terrific Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records , which ran from 2006-2014, an absolutely pivotal period in the onset of personal health data. — Hugo Campos (@HugoOC) December 8, 2014.

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