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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. HIPAA, in some cases, may not legally obligate privately held companies to keep collected information private.

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Voice First: Speaking Up about Health and Wellness

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Like Children’s hospital, Libertana Home Health Care saw the potential and launched a home health solution with Orbita in 2017 – with reminders about schedules, medications, and access to caregivers. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health.

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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).

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017. 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. adults were online health information hunters.

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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

The Action Plan calls for a final version guidance by the end of 2017 of its draft proposal of Deciding When to Submit a 510(k) Software Change to an Existing Device. The FDA has previously released guidance documents on Mobile Medical Apps and General Principles of Software Validation. The upgrade approval process will be clarified.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

As distant as 2017 may seem however, the preparation for Stage 3 is already underway in Washington; the vendor community and providers will soon be scrambling to follow suit. Yet at the broadest level, the evolution of EHRs (billing >> administration >> clinical) appears to be stalling.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do. 2017 – Digital Healthcare at the Inflection Point, a la Mary Meeker.

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