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

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7 Telehealth Terms You Need to Know

BHM Healthcare Solutions

If you read our blog post 5 Top Telemeds Trend of 2015 , you know that telehealth is slowly revolutionizing the healthcare world for the better. And often considered an important part of health IT initiatives and clinical care services. Interoperability is NOT the same thing as health information exchange.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) is the result. Mobile Access to Health Documents (MHD) - Revised 2015-03-12 I am not going to go into deep details, but take the perspective here that the reader is a FHIR expert, and wants to understand this MHD profile.

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Telemedicine Today: November 2016

American Well

billion by 2020 and some 15 million Americans received some form of virtual care in 2015. mHealth Intelligence. Research shows that busy working moms can find it challenging to see a doctor when they need to address a non-emergency health issue” said Debbie Diamond, a spokesperson for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia. “We