Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

This time, the FTC has issued a proposed order demanding BetterHelp stop sharing consumers’ health data. million to settle charges that it shared sensitive health data, including data on consumers’ mental health challenges, with third parties including Facebook and Snapchat.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

This is important because in 2017, one in four new drugs approved by the FDA were designed to treat a small population, falling. The team analyzed data-sharing guidelines across 230 policy documents published between 1996 and 2017. The third bar chart identifies the policy themes referenced in these data-sharing policies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since 2017.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 million civil penalty against GoodRx.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. 46% of U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

million for “deceiving consumers after promising to keep sensitive personal data private.” ” Unprecedented in telehealth history, the sharing of sensitive health information in early 2023 is poised to shatter provider naivete about working for large-scale business entities entering healthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“Our new data shows that the public has a definite opinion about what issues they feel companies should address and the social impact bar has been set high,” according to Amy Terpeluk, senior partner at Finn Partners. adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. The Index is based on a survey of 25,800 U.S.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

OCTOBER 28, 2022

On the surface, the apparent lack of anonymity may be unnerving, but it comes nowhere close to the pervasiveness of medical software that collects the most private forms of information about one’s biology and health records. This demand has prompted cyber thieves and nation-state actors (e.g.,

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Digital Health Global

MAY 24, 2023

Partnership supports patient matching across more than 28 million lives in Arizona and Colorado MCLEAN, Va., & PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verato, the identity experts for healthcare, and Contexture, the largest health information organization in the western U.S.,

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Healthcare is a $3 trillion+ industry wrought with waste and middlemen.Two insurers, UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, are among America’s largest firms by revenue, bringing in $200 billion and $185 billion respectively in 2017. By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 21, 2021

As modern technology becomes indispensable in health care, the vulnerabilities to cyber-threats continue to increase, compromising the health information and safety of millions of people. In May, 2017, the WannaCry ransomware encrypted data and files on 230? May 16, 2017; [link] Date accessed: February 12, 2019.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

Given a Health Information Exchange, or Nationwide Health Information Exchange, there will be a variety of capabilities and use-cases for the hundreds-thousands of various Document Consumers. A Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) CDA document vs a CCDA CCD. are laying around. Why publish multiple formats?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The event in Quebec was called “Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017: Unwinding the harms of too much medicine” and it is part of an ongoing global effort aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions, tests and medical treatments worldwide. It really was almost like being there, minus the croissants.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). FYI, she was a valuable peer reviewer for the health care privacy chapter in my book, HealthConsuming. Why is this so important? Boy, was I wrong.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

Specifically, the new code allows providers to bill the CMS for time spent collecting and interpreting remotely generated health data. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. Patient portals give users an online view of their health data, as do PHRs. The patient accesses the information through a secure portal,” ONC says. Source : [link]

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

Researchers detected behavior consistent with fraud and abuse by identifying excess expenditures in hospitalization claims from 2017 and validated their methods based on Department of Justice data. Nova Scotia Health chose MDclone to enable the use of synthetic health data for research.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted widespread use of real-world data (1). Desperate for medical insights without delay, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies turned to health information captured through real-world data sources. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.

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