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Cerebral Telehealth: 2023’s Second Largest Patient Data Breach

Telebehavioral Health Institute

.” OCR’s Allegation of Cerebral Telehealth The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the US Health and Human Services department in charge of investigating and sanctioning HIPAA violations, has posted the results of their current investigation of Cerebral. HIPAA investigations don’t occur in a vacuum.

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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. HIPAA, in some cases, may not legally obligate privately held companies to keep collected information private.

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Pivot’s smoking cessation quit rate reaches 44% in randomized controlled trial, with significantly higher biovalidated quit rates than control program at one year

Digital Health Global

Further, e-cigarette use and vaping are on the rise, with that market projected to grow 30% between 2023 and 2030. The randomized controlled trial, published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth, evaluated health outcomes in 188 adults twelve months after enrollment in either the Pivot program or the NCI’s QuitGuide (“the control arm”).

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