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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

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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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. believe that data privacy “is a thing of the past,” MITRE’s summary coined, with older people (Boomers and Seniors) most likely to feel that way. The Harris Poll conducted the study among 2,065 U.S.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Everyone of Manatt Health’s ten imperatives are spot-on in this moment as we segue from Our Covid Year of 2020 to the Covid Year of 2021.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. In the U.S.,

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

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. “Ethics of Digital Mental Health During COVID-19: Crisis and Opportunities.”

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” ” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity.

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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Trust, or really lack thereof, is a killer app for people’s coronavirus health outcomes. That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you think about technology as simply being able to do more with less, healthcare is a great place to apply those skills” Steve Krupa , CEO, Psilos Group On March 11 th , 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Can, or will, American policymakers foster a nation of health citizens by assuring universal health care, granting patients control over their health data, and assuring privacy of that data especially as our digital selves generated more health-helpful data outside of the healthcare system?

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Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over

Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

The share of Americans suffering simultaneously from depression and anxiety grew five-fold, year-over-year, in just the first three-months of the pandemic-mandated lockdown, from April to June 2020, when the death toll still hovered around 120,000.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. Reflecting on my many conversations during CES last week, I’m evolving the concept to our homes morphing into health delivery platforms. Justice Department.

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Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

You would have fought through the civil-liberties issues of people sharing their health information willingly or not willingly. Am I willing to share my health data so that you know if I got it? You’d have tests available from the get-go. Early on, people with COVID had symptoms we didn’t know to track.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

One gift of the pandemic was a mass recognition of and empathy for mental health – in oneself and in the larger community. More health citizens access therapy via virtual platforms at the start of the COVID-19 era in early 2020, with tele-mental health sustaining use ahead of other conditions for which people seek virtual medical services.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Beyond current employees, companies in health care are also looking to hire workers with skills to support new capabilities and product offerings. Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020. Their poll of consumers found that 7 in 10 U.S.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over

Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

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