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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. mHealth companies should implement a “zero-trust” approach to securing apps and APIs.

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Most health apps have the ability to collect and share patient data, study finds

Mobi Health News

While mHealth apps collect and share user data less often than other types of apps, researchers say these apps have serious privacy problems.

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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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Data security – The priority for mHealth apps

Waracle

mHealth apps are mobile applications which utilise the ubiquity, connectivity and flexibility of our smartphones to improve patient’s health. Data which can then be leveraged to deliver better care, support better behaviours, increase motivation and drive patient action through engagement. mHealth App transport security.

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The rise of mHealth and the convergence of medicine with AI and Big Data

Lloyd Price

This report will explore the rise of mHealth and the convergence of medicine with AI and Big Data. mHealth will unlock the cheapest and most efficient healthcare and make it available to billions of people via their smartphones.

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mHealth Guide to HIMSS19

mHealth Insight

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight blog. Cardinal Analytx (USA/Booth 888-33). and in Europe.

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The European Commission funds the launch of the EU mHealth Hub

mHealth Insight

The European mHealth Hub is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the action “Establishing EU mHealth Hub including evidence for the integration of mHealth in the healthcare systems” (Grant Agreement No 737427) and is a project promoted by the United Nations International Telecommunication (..)

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