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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. The authors look through both clinician and consumer lenses.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. However, only 44% would be willing to share their personal data with a national database, a MITRE study learned. adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition.

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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. military.

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Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?

E-CareManagement

In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.