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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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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

That AI-powered counsel can emanate from the digital health technologies, apps, and algorithms that people are increasingly using — choosing to do so on their own, as well as adopting new tools based on health care provider and wellness coach recommendations (or “prescriptions”).

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

That’s one barrier overcome to get smartphone health apps into the hands of people dealing with the many tasks involved with managing chronic disease. It’s not the only barrier, and not a panacea; but it’s an important one in terms of a potential on-ramp to self-health tools.

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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey

Health Populi

Access to doctors and nurses through Urgent Care on the phone. Brain Games by Posit Science, among other apps and tools. Other features in the Lively Flip are: 24 x 7 access to the GreatCall Urgent Response call center. The GreatCall link app for family caregivers. A reading magnifier with an LED flashlight.

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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

Health Populi

” Calm is but one of a growing portfolio of tools that health citizens can use to manage anxiety and stress, get to sleep (and stay sleeping), and bolster mental well-being. This is a fast-growing category for health-tech investing.

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From Boost Mobile and Swype to Xealth: One Entrepreneur’s Journey into Healthtech

Chilmark Research

During our conversation, Mike recounts how he and his team explored 70+ startup ideas with Providence stakeholders – patients, nurses, physicians, executives – before settling on the Xealth concept. And so you get inspired by that. John : [00:02:45] Okay. So let’s talk a little bit about what XLF does.

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