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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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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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Cerebral Telehealth: 2023’s Second Largest Patient Data Breach

Telebehavioral Health Institute

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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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

Health Populi

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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HealthTech Africa 2024

Lloyd Price

For example, some startups are developing wearable devices that can monitor patients' vital signs and send the data to healthcare providers. Maternal and child health: Maternal and child health is another major challenge in Africa, and there is a growing demand for healthtech solutions to improve outcomes.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%.

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Therapy Apps: Need-To-Know Issues for Clinicians

Telebehavioral Health Institute

While approximately 20% of US adults experienced mental illness in 2020, only 46% received treatment (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, 2021 ). Since then, finding accurate and helpful information has been challenging. Most recently, this need prompted a research team to study these issues.