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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 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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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. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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. Help our children achieve their potential.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses. The study was conducted to assess consumers’ views on sharing personal data for health purposes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

In fact, in 2020, research found that just under half of the US population used tech to communicate with their healthcare providers. The American Medical Association found that in 2022, over 75% of patients expressed concern about protecting the privacy of personal health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But I believe that the ATA’s careful brick-laying, their forging of bonds with policy-makers and health care leaders, their patient education, made it easier for providers to adopt telemedicine quickly in the Spring of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic required it. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations. This law shares many elements with the GDPR.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 Misrepresented its HIPAA Compliance.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 12, 2022

DrKumo is a multi-awarded RPM company known for Disease Management Programs (DMPs) and live health data transmission from RPM medical devices to a cloud-based platform. DrKumo CEO Kelly Nguyen joins SOCAP22 to promote the benefits of real-time and continuous remote patient monitoring with disease management program capabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Telehealth.org readers will also recall the January 4 research report titled, Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA ? It showed how 49 or 50 telehealth platforms investigated by researchers shared sensitive healthcare data with marketing companies. Users in 2020.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 7, 2023

Legal and regulatory issues: Telemedicine involves the exchange of sensitive health information across jurisdictions and platforms, necessitating attention to privacy, security, consent, liability, reimbursement, licensing, and accreditation. CDC (2020). Clear policies and guidelines are necessary to ensure ethical and legal practices.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 14, 2022

In the year 2020, heart disease deaths increased by 4.8%, the largest increase in heart disease deaths since 2012. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been created to gather patients’ health data without being heavily burdened by hospitals and emergency rooms. . Telemedicine has been around since the rise of technology.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Multiple telehealth abortion companies have successfully prescribed and delivered abortion pills since 2020 when it was first permitted by the Federal Drug Administration. If not mandated by a payor, telehealth abortion services usually involve HIPAA-compliant, text-based interactions. That policy was made permanent in 2021.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple telehealth abortion companies have successfully prescribed and delivered abortion pills since 2020 when it was first permitted by the Federal Drug Administration. If not mandated by a payor, telehealth abortion services usually involve HIPAA-compliant, text-based interactions. That policy was made permanent in 2021.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 26, 2023

Wearable devices: These devices can be used to track patients' health data, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels. AI and machine learning: These technologies can be used to analyze large amounts of data to identify patterns and trends that can help improve patient care.

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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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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Gartner predicts by 2020, 30% of searches will be voice activated. Laura shared results from the voice solution Answers by Cigna which helps members get the information they need to make better health care decisions. Several organizations are anxiously awaiting for HIPAA compliant voice devices. Educating Patients about Voice.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Remote Patient Monitoring, in essence, employs a range of technological devices to collect and transmit health data from patients in real-time. To encourage broader adoption, CMS in 2021 delineated more comprehensive billing rules for RPM codes, specifying the required data and device capabilities for RPM.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. "You get to determine who you share it with.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. In 2019, Fitbit unveiled a more data-driven personal health subscription service for consumers that, among other features, generates personal reports that a user can download and share with their physician, nutritionist or personal trainer.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

But then there’s the formidable challenge of medical privacy and the regulation of Big Tech companies’ use of personal data, covered in general terms on page 167 shown here. The blurring of mobile and digital into overall business process is a meta-trend for the global economy, and certainly for the health care ecosystem.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Ultimately, I look toward an American-style GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) beyond HIPAA to broaden Americans’ personal privacy protections… one day, and not soon enough.

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