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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. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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Health SXSW 2018 | The 33 charts Super Guide

33 Charts - Digital Health

Headed to SXSW 2018? I’ve done the heavy lifting by curating a super list of the best health care talks and events at SXSW interactive. Think of it as the ultimate guide for the health care power user. If you’ve not done Health SXSW you’re in for a treat. Impact Pediatric Health. Come hear what the data says.

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Spotify Health: Big Tech's latest new entrant into Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Spotify plans to use Neko Health's technology to develop new features for its music streaming service, such as personalized playlists based on a user's health data. In 2022, the company launched a pilot program in the United States that provides mental health counseling to Spotify employees.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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

Health Populi

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? On Monday 9th March 2020, at the start of this week, the U.S.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Health Populi

Supporting the medical community for research and innovation, physician-patient relationships, and bolstering public health. Central to Apple’s health support for consumers is putting “health data in one place,” a goal on which the Apple Watch and the Health app have been built.