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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. mHealth companies should implement a “zero-trust” approach to securing apps and APIs.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” here in Health Populi. . Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Enter the digital era, forcing a re-definition of what we mean by “infrastructure.” This concept informs the current discussion about how we define “infrastructure” moving forward. Fifty+ years ago, we conjured up bridges and roads for cars and trucks, telephone lines and dams.

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.

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FHIR Security and Privacy - tutorial outline

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MHD Connectathon Results FHIR Security: Do (Not) Worry FHIR Full Steam Ahead Define Atom -- Too many definitions in use today Healthcare access control scope constraints on OAuth tokens mHealth Identities using trusted intermediary getting to mHealth solutions - real People getting to mHealth solutions - Users Internet User Authorization: why and where (..)

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

HD : HD stands for high definition and refers to video that is a higher resolution than standard. mHealth : mHealth stands for mobile health and refers to healthcare apps and services delivered via mobile technology like smartphones and tablets. HD video requires faster internet connection speeds for proper image transmission.

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FHIR Security: Do (Not) Worry

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Developing FHIR Resource definition: The committee members developing FHIR need to focus on developing well thought-out Resource Definitions. Not really size, but in the number of elements included in the Resource definition. There are exceptions for committee members that are developing FHIR.

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