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Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

The FTC is continuing its crackdown on companies that share healthcare data inappropriately. Anne Zieger summarized the agency’s order demanding that BetterHelp stop sharing patients’ data, including mental health data, with third parties such as Facebook and Snapchat. The FTC also seeks $7.8

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Apple's Healthcare Strategy: Build, buy or partner? Buy appears to be the most likely.

Lloyd Price

Apple’s main Investments and acquisitions in the healthcare space since 2016 include: In 2016, Apple acquired Gliimpse, a personal health data platform. In 2019, Apple acquired Tueo Health, an asthma monitoring company. In 2016, it acquired Flyby Media, which worked on computer vision technology.

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Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

Lloyd Price

The FHI finds that, despite the majority of individuals wanting access to their digital health record (DHR) and being prepared to share it more widely with healthcare professionals, insufficient data sharing currently takes place. This is especially true for data collected by individuals themselves. Source : [link]

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The Different Types of Telehealth

iSALUS Healthcare

In 2016 the global telehealth market was valued at $2.78 Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Often used for seniors or in senior living areas, remote patient monitoring is the collection of a patient’s health data from a patient or resident in one location that is then electronically sent to a healthcare professional (provider, nurse, etc.)

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

Wearable monitoring devices, genomics, and AI play vital roles in this transformation, enabling personalized interventions and collective health data sharing for research. Prevention is the key to shifting from reactive healthcare to proactive healthcare. DiMasi, H.G. Grabowski, and R.W.

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mHealth Insights live from #HIMSS18

mHealth Insight

Description: This session will highlight the opportunities and challenges associated with patients generating their own health data and the role of nurses in facilitating these new technologies and data sources. Learning Objectives: Discuss the role of nurses in training patients to use new mHealth technologies.

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The Top Telehealth Terms to Know

American Well

Apple Health: Apple Health, or Apple HealthKit, is a preinstalled app on Apple Watch and all iOS8 devices that contains an easy-to-read dashboard for a person’s fitness and health data. AW9: American Well’s next generation product line, AW9 , was revealed at HIMSS 2016 in Las Vegas.