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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. mHealth companies should implement a “zero-trust” approach to securing apps and APIs. As a result, most U.S.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Beazley conducted a survey among 376 digital health and wellness practitioners and divined four key themes from the research on risk, growth, insurance, and understanding. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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Connected Health Conference: Digital Health’s Opportunity to Capture a Positive View of Aging

Chilmark Research

The Connected Health Conference and its predecessor events, the Partners HealthCare’s Connected Health Symposium and the Personal Connected Health Alliance’s Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event), aim to frame digital health advancements in the context of improving clinical care delivery as well as personal engagement.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Just saying.

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mHealth guide to Mobile World Congress 2019

mHealth Insight

Last year mHealth fell off the radar for the GSMA and there was no mHealth content at the world’s biggest mobile industry conference and exhibition (held annually in Barcelona – [link]. But it also has significant implications for our mental and physical health. MD, Global Lead, Connected Health, Digital.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

As Matthew called out, the digital health sector has a relatively rosy outlook in the pandemic economy. This pretty rosy assessment was confirmed by Sunny Kumar, partner at GSR Ventures, who discussed the results of the survey on a webinar launching the survey results on 11th May.