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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. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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5 Common Chronic Skin Conditions, Their Physical and Mental Health Impact and How to Get Help

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

How can you manage the effects of having chronic skin conditions on your physical and mental health? Physical symptoms vary in nature, yet they all have the ability to affect one’s mental health. Those who have a physical health problem have an increased risk of having behavioral and mental health challenges.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo , a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. For more on this issue, see Health Populi here ]. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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BetterHelp Investigation by FTC & Privacy Update by DOJ

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The FTC announcement clarified that email addresses constitute personally identifiable health information because email addresses identify visitors as people seeking mental health care. “Personal information” may be “health information” simply due to the nature of the product or service.

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AI Health Companion for Personalized Healthcare in 2024

NiftyHMS

It supports patients in understanding their symptoms, gives initial advice on whether to see a doctor and provides relevant health information. Health Monitoring: The AI companion can collect and analyze real-time health data from wearables, smart devices, or other sensors to monitor patients’ vital signs and health conditions remotely.

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Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Health Populi

We start with key lessons from the pandemic, confront the supply-side challenges we’ve already seen the start of, confess to our thorny sub-optimal solutions to the opioid crisis and mental health epidemic, and deal with the scourge of health equity that mars U.S. health care outcomes, bioethics, and moral imperatives.