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

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Note the timing of this publication: the authors submitted the manuscript to Nature on 19th March 2020… just eight days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr.

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

Health Populi

All of these new-new “things” are connected devices, generating personal data that can be scraped for our health profiles. While California will implement a broad consumer-protective privacy law on January 1, 2020, the remainder of the U.S.

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Join us at “Transforming Community Pharmacies in to High Street Clinics”

mHealth Insight

NHS England aiming to make ICP a mainstream model of care across England by 2020, following the rollout of ICP pilot programmes in 18 areas across England. Topics/Speakers will include: Introduction & Background Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. [link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023.