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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020.

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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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Data security – The priority for mHealth apps

Waracle

mHealth apps are mobile applications which utilise the ubiquity, connectivity and flexibility of our smartphones to improve patient’s health. mHealth App transport security. Why is mHealth App security important? mHealth apps need security to be their primary feature. Let’s find out. .

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mHealth guide to Mobile World Congress 2019

mHealth Insight

Last year mHealth fell off the radar for the GSMA and there was no mHealth content at the world’s biggest mobile industry conference and exhibition (held annually in Barcelona – [link]. health system alone through the use of virtual healthcare tools. GLOMO Awards: Fourth Industrial Revolution Live Presentation.

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New Study of Mindfulness Apps & Online Programs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Given the research and consumer interest in this and other mental health apps , a group of researchers led by Catherine Begin conducted a scoping review to better understand mindfulness and self-compassion using apps and online platforms to address concerns such as work burnout and stress. Why Focus on Workers? Ciulla, R.

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Five Things Digital Health Companies Need to do to Achieve Success

The Digital Health Corner

It has been a long time since my last post of 2018. The digital health economic, clinical, regulatory, and political landscapes have changed significantly since then. This is by no means a comprehensive treatise on this subject, but an update on digital health and how I see it. Welcome back, readers and strap yourselves in!

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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?