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Feds Hit BetterHelp With $8M Fine Over Patient Data Sharing Lapses

Healthcare IT Today

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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The Federal Trade Commission Accuses GoodRx Of Multiple Data Sharing Fails, Demands It Pay $1.5 Million Fine and Make Reforms

Healthcare IT Today

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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Data Privacy and Healthcare Access: Top Issues Shaping Consumers’ Societal ROI

Health Populi

adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. Underneath these three factors are attributes including: Exhibiting excellent leadership. So consumers are connecting dots in this Brave New World of health data mashing up with other personal information. The Index is based on a survey of 25,800 U.S.

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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

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Specifically, the new code allows providers to bill the CMS for time spent collecting and interpreting remotely generated health data. The attribute that makes them successful is one of the same attributes that make any program successful — strong leadership.”. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen

Health Populi

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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