Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style style GDPR?

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Redox

MARCH 15, 2024

The answer requires establishing data standards across systems and solving usability problems—and that’s just a start. Digital Health Most Wired: National Trends 2023.” Idea with legs: The common theme among healthcare organization respondents is “accelerated data use.” The Journal of mHealth.

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Waracle

JANUARY 21, 2021

As we head into 2021, buoyed by the incredible array of innovations seen in 2020, we take a look at some of the most interesting technologies driving change in the healthcare sector. Mobile Applications for health tracking. These trends are driving growth in mHealth, a sector which is expected to become a $189bn industry by 2025.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

Next week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will convene CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, where over 180,000 tech-minded people from around the world will convene to kick the tires on new TVs, games, smart home devices, 5G connections, 3-D printing, drones, and to be sure, digital health innovations.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

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. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.

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