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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

The vast majority of older people, across the age groups, use their smartphones every day: most commonly, to send or receive emails, to get directions or traffic information, or to surf the web for news, information, or social networking. Half of older people with a home assistant use them every day, across all age groups.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Those advertising companies include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and many more, which are immune to HIPAA violations because they are not covered entities. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. ” JMIR Mental Health 7, no. What Is Privacy?,

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

Health Populi

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

While Europeans in the room — remembering two of the major sponsors of the meeting were Essilor (based in France) and Luxxotica (based in Italy) — are covered by the GDPR for privacy of personal data, Americans are barely covered by a patchwork privacy quilt of HIPAA, GINA, COPPA (for children online), and other bits of policy.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Privacy and data security remain a major issue, which is a particularly challenging problem when it comes to consumer-facing health and wellness apps as discussed in this New York Times article, “When Apps Get Your Medical Data, Your Privacy May Go With It.” Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Health Populi

” These findings came from a study from the Winterberry Group on “the evolving role of audience insight,” conducted in partnership with the IAB Data Center of Excellence and issued on March 5, 2019.