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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 Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data

E-CareManagement

The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog.

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

Health Populi

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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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data. Ultimately Congressional action is needed to establish meaningful privacy protections for personal data.

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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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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Health Populi

Trust, or really lack thereof, is a killer app for people’s coronavirus health outcomes. That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19.

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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.