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Health IT Roundup—Apps share sensitive health data with Facebook; Stanford issues ethical guidelines for digital health

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million healthcare records were exposed in 2018, which more than doubles 2017, a report finds; health and fitness apps have been sharing sensitive health data with Facebook and more health IT headlines.

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Health Data Cloud Leader 1upHealth Raises $40 Million Series C led by Sixth Street Growth

Healthcare IT Today

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then? Samsung down 4 points.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

I noted the Yin-and-Yang-and the Blur of this health data ecosystem in 2013 when I attended CES, HIMSS and South-by-Southwest in a matter of weeks, kicking tires on digital health developments at all three events. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding. billion.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

In the extensive privacy discussion in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I cited Deloitte’s 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey which described consumer privacy as “a concerned embrace of technology” (see page 14 within the report link). Three-fourths of U.S.

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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 Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

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. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.