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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. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style style GDPR?

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

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Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

Health Populi

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity. One of many questions for U.S.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

He showed new evidence from Nature (journal) Volume 574 dated 24th October 2019 — Eric is never guilty of showing old data unless it’s making a new-new insight. That, too, was a prime Dr. Topol moment, wearing his health policy hat: his belief that the U.S.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

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We must treat people like who they are matters,” using all kinds of data – public data, health data, claims data, and so on. The company realizes that culture is more important than a language, although at SameSky Health, the team represents at least 30 languages. We can serve everybody.”.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.