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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. ATA, which represents the full range of providers that deliver telehealth, has intervened with some states as they grapple with health data privacy legislation, he said.

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. Consumers’ valuing convenience won’t last forever as they will seek more features to stay with telehealth services.

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Consumerism, Telehealth and Patient Access To Health Data

Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Q&A with Life Image president and CEO, Matthew Michela Seventy-five percent of consumers are willing to share their health data with their preferred local healthcare institution, according to a recent survey. The article Consumerism, Telehealth and Patient Access To Health Data appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Senators raise concerns about telehealth startups' data sharing

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In letters to Monument, Workit Health and Cerebral, the senators expressed concern about reports that the companies are sharing health data with third parties like Google and Facebook.

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

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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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Teladoc Health data shows virtual mental healthcare boom

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Teladoc Health released findings Wednesday showing an enormous demand for virtual mental health care since the start of the pandemic. Behavioral health professionals have pointed to the advantages of using virtual care, including accessibility and discretion for those who may not have felt comfortable accessing services in the past.

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Omron health data comes to Doctor Anywhere telehealth app

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 5, 2021

This will provide doctors with timely access to patients' health records.

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Cerebral Telehealth: 2023’s Second Largest Patient Data Breach

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

Adding to the growing number of recent FTC investigations about data being shared by telehealth platforms for profit, Cerebral reportedly notified 3.1 million users that their protected health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok.

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Amazon-powered Data Fusion Center could shed light on who isn't using telehealth – and why

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data. One area of particular interest is telehealth use.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable.

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Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

Warren and Welch asked Amazon executives earlier this month about patient health data privacy and expressed concerns that the platform’s new healthcare service is putting users’ private health data at risk. They requested a detailed response to their concerns from Amazon by June 30.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

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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HIMSSCast: Telehealth in the trenches

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 28, 2021

Along with Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich, we discuss what it was like for small practices and independent therapists to make the sudden move to telehealth in the face of COVID-19 — and how the experience will shape the future of their practice. Edwin and Carol’s telehealth experiences prior to the pandemic.

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Prominent Telehealth Startups Sharply Criticized by US Senators

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Following the release of a report by STAT and The Markup, which found 49 of 50 telehealth startups may fall short of legal requirements for HIPAA compliance, a bipartisan group of US senators has fiercely criticized several prominent telehealth startups for sharing patient data with Facebook, Google, and other major advertising platforms.

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Telehealth Startups Sharing Patient Data

Digital Health Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

An absolute firework show of a joint report between STAT and The Markup cast a spotlight on telehealth companies sharing sensitive patient information with advertisers, and it definitely wasn’t a good look for some of the biggest names in the space. Here’s how many of the sites shared data with each advertiser: Google – 47 sites.

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Will Trade Data for (Cheaper) Health Care – USC’s View of the Future

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Themes addressed a range of digital health items such as access to medical information via smartphone, wearable health trackers, digital assistants, telemedicine, AI in medical treatment, robotics for medical care, and sharing health data, among other factors. Welcome to the age of sharing data for value-exchange.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Could 2022 Be The Year Telehealth Breaks Out of Its Silo?

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2021

While telehealth use has made tremendous gains since the emergence of COVID, the technology still sits largely on the sidelines. Telehealth visits are now widely available, but the providers offering these visits aren’t adding new capabilities or even integrating the technology into their overall workflow.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

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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Innovation: The Telehealth Revolution in Diabetes Management

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APRIL 17, 2024

Thankfully, innovation is bringing exciting new tools to the table, and telehealth technologies are revolutionizing how we approach diabetes management. This article dives into the impact of telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) on managing diabetes, focusing on blood glucose monitoring and patient education.

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Coviu's latest app combines telehealth, remote patient monitoring for COVID-19 management

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

It displays health data from bluetooth-enabled medical devices in video teleconsultations.

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HIMSS promotes key policies on telehealth expansion, maternal health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively. Those risks to maternal health have only increased during the pandemic.

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth.

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India pilots plug-and-play telehealth programme for underserved areas

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, an autonomous agency under India's Department of Science and Technology, has launched a telehealth programme to serve patients living in rural areas. Enterprise Taxonomy: Rural and underserved communities Telehealth Patient Access. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. Those privacy nuances and concerns vary by activity, shown in the first chart here from the study.

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Feds Hit BetterHelp With $8M Fine Over Patient Data Sharing Lapses

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

which it says shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately. This is the latest move by the FTC to crack down on healthcare organizations that share healthcare data inappropriately. This time, the FTC has issued a proposed order demanding BetterHelp stop sharing consumers’ health data.

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Doxy.me leak exposes provider data to third parties

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A CyberScoop report published on Friday found that the telehealth provider Doxy.me had allowed third parties to access data about providers via its virtual waiting room. No patient health data was exposed. Data sent to those third-parties were basic browser details (version, operating system, etc.) "Doxy.me

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

As these latter technologies developed and generated lots of digital data, researchers, clinicians, and third parties have mashed up the information for wellness and medical and other reasons that have had nothing to do with the context of health/care. From Kaspersky, Telehealth take-up: the risks and opportunities , December 2021.

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Telehealth privacy and security: Investment and education are key, attorney says

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2020

The size, scope and rapidity of new telehealth and remote patient-monitoring rollouts since the onset of the coronavirus crisis has been remarkable. But if telehealth is relatively easy to roll out and scale up, keeping the massive amounts of structured and unstructured data it generates is something more of a challenge.

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Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. which it said shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately. Online mental provider Cerebral, Inc.

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Best Practices in Utilizing Patient-Generated Health Data: Opportunities in Preventive Wellness, Population Health, and Remote Care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2019

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. " Neil C.

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Facebook (Meta) Sued Over Data Privacy Practices in Healthcare With Meta Pixel

Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jane Doe, a patient at UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company in relation to its health data privacy practices. More About Facebook’s Meta Lawsuit & Data Privacy in Healthcare. Meta Pixel.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then?

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Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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Physicians Increasingly Interested In Use of Patient-Generated Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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“Digital Health Is An Ecosystem of Ecosystems” – CTA’s 2020 Trends to Watch Into the Data Age

Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

That speaks to Steve’s phrase, “ecosystem of ecosystems,” because that’s not just “digital” health — that’s now the true nature of health/care, and what is driving connectivity toward interoperability, cloud computing, and the adoption of APIs to enable health data liquidity.

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AMA offers further guidance for telehealth rollouts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. AMA's playbook series offers 12-step processes to help with rollouts of various digital health tools. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

At this point, it's not a surprise to say that data is power – particularly when it comes to advancing clinical research, furthering innovation and improving patient care. Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking.

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What is homomorphic encryption for healthcare data?

Lloyd Price

APRIL 12, 2023

What is homomorphic encryption for healthcare data? Homomorphic encryption is a type of encryption that allows computation to be performed on encrypted data without the need for decryption. What are the earliest examples of homomorphic encryption for healthcare data?

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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid- March, the institute began transitioning our services to telehealth whenever possible, in an effort to abide by Governor Cuomo’s stay-at-home order and keep our staff and patients safe, although these services are limited by our current equipment and software capabilities.” services, using free, individual accounts.

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

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Consumerism, Telehealth and Patient Access To Health Data

Senators raise concerns about telehealth startups' data sharing

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

Teladoc Health data shows virtual mental healthcare boom

Omron health data comes to Doctor Anywhere telehealth app

Cerebral Telehealth: 2023’s Second Largest Patient Data Breach

Amazon-powered Data Fusion Center could shed light on who isn't using telehealth – and why

A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

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

HIMSSCast: Telehealth in the trenches

Prominent Telehealth Startups Sharply Criticized by US Senators

Telehealth Startups Sharing Patient Data

Will Trade Data for (Cheaper) Health Care – USC’s View of the Future

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

Could 2022 Be The Year Telehealth Breaks Out of Its Silo?

Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Innovation: The Telehealth Revolution in Diabetes Management

Coviu's latest app combines telehealth, remote patient monitoring for COVID-19 management

HIMSS promotes key policies on telehealth expansion, maternal health

The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

India pilots plug-and-play telehealth programme for underserved areas

Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Feds Hit BetterHelp With $8M Fine Over Patient Data Sharing Lapses

Doxy.me leak exposes provider data to third parties

The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Telehealth privacy and security: Investment and education are key, attorney says

Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users

Best Practices in Utilizing Patient-Generated Health Data: Opportunities in Preventive Wellness, Population Health, and Remote Care

VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Facebook (Meta) Sued Over Data Privacy Practices in Healthcare With Meta Pixel

A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Physicians Increasingly Interested In Use of Patient-Generated Health Data

“Digital Health Is An Ecosystem of Ecosystems” – CTA’s 2020 Trends to Watch Into the Data Age

AMA offers further guidance for telehealth rollouts

Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

What is homomorphic encryption for healthcare data?

How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

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