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Cerebral Telehealth: 2023’s Second Largest Patient Data Breach

Telebehavioral Health Institute

million users that their protected health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok. The strategy involves promising consumers their information is safe, only to knowingly provide that sensitive, perhaps even protected, health information to marketing companies for profit.

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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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Therapy Apps: Need-To-Know Issues for Clinicians

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Mental health therapy apps can help clinicians bridge the gap, but only if clinicians know how to effectively use apps in their clinical practices and beyond to increase access to behavioral health information, support, and interventions worldwide. Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

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Digital Health Academic Journals

Digital Health Hub

Last Update: January 27, 2023 Number Journal Name Impact Factor (2021) Publishing Options Publisher Country G1 The Lancet Digital Health 36.615 OA Elsevier Ltd. Canada G6 Computers in Biology and Medicine 6.698 Standard/OA Elsevier Ltd UK G7 JMIR mHealth and uHealth 4.95 Click on the journal name to head over to its home page.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

[link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023. 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.

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New Study of Mindfulness Apps & Online Programs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The focus on accessing mindfulness information through behavioral health technology is particularly relevant, given the remarkable popularity of mindfulness apps such as Headspace, Calm, Insight Timer, Palouse Mindfulness, UCLA Mindful, Mindfulness Coach, and HeadGear.