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

Health Populi

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. pharmacies, prescription drugs), email addresses, and drug lists. style GDPR?

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. 46% of U.S. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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Health Plan Alliance Selects 1upHealth as Preferred Health Data Interoperability Partner

Digital Health Global

For far too long fragmented healthcare information has hindered the timely and accurate transmission of critical patient data. We are honored to be chosen as the preferred health data interoperability partner by the Health Plan Alliance,” said Joe Gagnon, CEO of 1upHealth.

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Self-sovereign identity (SSI) - the future of Health Data?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem. Overall, SSI presents a transformative opportunity for the future of health data.

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Biggest trends and most likely strategic buyers expected to shape Digital Health M&A in 2024

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Digital health M&A activity is expected to remain strong in the next 12 months, but valuations are likely to remain under pressure. Digital health companies that can help providers and payers achieve their value-based care goals are likely to be attractive acquisition targets.

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Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Healthcare IT Today

As healthcare organizations continue to invest in SDoH, moving from analysis to impact requires operationalizing this data for coordinated efforts and long-term returns on investment. What are the gaps in your clinical data, and how could social determinants of health data address them?

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.