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Modern Health Data Management Requires a Proven Patient Identity Solution

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The article Modern Health Data Management Requires a Proven Patient Identity Solution appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Survey: Privacy protections boost consumers' willingness to share health data

Mobi Health News

adults reveals consent, data transparency, data deletion and oversight may strengthen consumer trust and support socially valuable uses of digital health data A survey of more than 3,500 U.S.

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Singaporean health data analytics firm Holmusk gets Veradigm's backing

Mobi Health News

Veradigm is also keen on bringing its behavioural health data to Holmusk's rapidly growing database.

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Consumers May Not Be Well Informed About Uses Of Patient Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are.

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Health Data Federalism vs States Data

Healthcare IT Today

This week I’m attending the The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, which I previously described as The Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability. Supporting funding for state data collection is important.

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Jonathan Bush's health data startup Zus Health raises $40M

Mobi Health News

Zus also announced a partnership with primary care tech company Elation Health

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GoodRx shared health data with Google and Facebook, FTC says

Mobi Health News

GoodRx agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine under the proposed order, but it admitted no wrongdoing

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Health Data and Interoperability Infrastructure Needs

Healthcare IT Today

However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure. In today’s healthcare landscape, data is accumulating and flowing from numerous digital sources.

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Health Data, Clinical Jedi, Death Star – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Clinical Jedi Fun Friday Health Data HumorHappy Friday everyone! We hope you had a great week and accomplished many great things. Thanks so much for reading and supporting Healthcare IT Today. We deeply appreciate the amazing community we have here.

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German health data company Temedica scores €25M

Mobi Health News

The funding brings the Munich-based startup's total Series B raise to €42 million

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FTC to bar BetterHelp from sharing health data for ads

Mobi Health News

million for allegedly sharing consumer data with third parties like Facebook and Snapchat for advertising purposes In a proposed order, the online therapy company would also pay $7.8

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Cerebral Confesses to Sharing Health Data of 3.1M Users

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Adding to the growing number of recent FTC investigations about data voluntarily 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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Q&A: FTC action on health data sharing could put digital health 'on notice'

Mobi Health News

Scott Loughlin, partner at Hogan Lovells, discusses the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement action against GoodRx and what digital health companies should learn from the case

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Why Isn’t Health Data Available Where It’s Needed Including Public Health?

Healthcare IT Today

I often talk to patients who wonder why their healthcare data isn’t following them.

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CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

Healthcare IT Today

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Reproductive Health Data: Open Standard Offers Access Control, Revocation, and Other Traits

Healthcare IT Today

A team of women coders caught attention at DEF CON on June 26 with a secure reproductive health tracking app (Figure 1) that lets a menstruating person exchange data securely with health staff. The reproductive health app itself, SecureCycle , is not yet ready for use.

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Crescendo Health Launches to Improve and Accelerate Clinical Trials By Unlocking Patient Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

Crescendo Health’s real-world data platform creates partnerships between researchers and patients to gain greater longitudinal insights into health outcomes from clinical research. About Crescendo Health.

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State AGs urge Apple to better protect reproductive health data

Mobi Health News

In a letter to CEO Tim Cook, ten state attorneys general called on the tech giant to require stricter privacy standards for third-party apps hosted on the App Store

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The Business Case for Health Data Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Vince Kuraitis, co-chair of Health Data Unbound: Innovations in Health Data Sharing for the COVID-19 Era and Beyond. Day-by-day, the business case for data sharing is growing stronger. In this essay, I’ll describe how COVID-19 is accelerating existing healthcare trends, how data sharing is becoming a key business […].

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DC Health Link hack exposed health data on legislators: media reports

FierceHealthIT

DC Health Link hack exposed health data on legislators: media reports pminemyer Thu, 03/09/2023 - 11:07

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Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Healthcare IT Today

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. Smile Digital Health has seen significant growth in our platform because it does just this.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data.

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Cerebral shared private health data on 3.1M users for years with advertisers, social media platforms

FierceHealthIT

Cerebral shared private health data on 3.1M users for years with advertisers, social media platforms agliadkovskaya Thu, 03/16/2023 - 10:57

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The Perils of Making Your Health Data Available Online

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. It’s easier than ever to put health data on the Internet. Fitness trackers, health apps and other connected devices can give people a lot of insight into their health. Unfortunately, that’s not the only way that their health data ends up getting used. Health insurance companies are particularly interested in getting their hands on all […].

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FTC slaps GoodRx with $1.5M fine for sharing users' health data with Facebook, Google

FierceHealthIT

fine for sharing users' health data with Facebook, Google aburky Wed, 02/01/2023 - 15:28FTC slaps GoodRx with $1.5M

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COVID-19 and The Health Data Security Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a number of personal health data challenges for both healthcare organizations and private businesses alike. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

Health Populi

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis.

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Earning the public’s trust on health data 

DigitalHealth

Ahead of Digital Health Rewired, Professor Ben Goldacre explains why information governance is not enough when it comes to protecting privacy. Feature Ben Goldacre Data Digital Health Rewired Digital Health Rewired 2023 Goldacre review GPDPR Rewired 2023 TREs

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Consumerism, Telehealth and Patient Access To Health Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. 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.

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The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 87

Healthcare IT Today

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data.

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Measles Epidemic Exposes Performance Gaps In U.S., Global Health Data Analytics

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Measles continues to spread in the United States as health officials seek to stem the worst outbreak of the disease in decades. Global Health Data Analytics appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial Condusiv Technologies health data analytics James D’Arezzo Measles EpidemicIllegal copying is prohibited.

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CMR Surgical and Microsoft collaborate on health data storage trial

Mobi Health News

Clinical data from the Versius robotic system is stored on a Project Silica glass platter which can be preserved for more than 10,000 years

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Health Data Integration Must Be for the Whole Clinic

Healthcare IT Today

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view.

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Beamtree set to buy health data analytics firm Potential(x)

Mobi Health News

The acquisition is a stepping stone in the healthcare tech company's plan to expanding globally

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Bill Would Regulate Handling Of Consumer-Generated Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen. Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age.

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True or False: Your Patients’ Health Data Is Protected by Privacy Rights?

Healthcare IT Today

When most of your patients hear “health data rights,” they likely think of HIPAA, or the long forms they rarely read in their doctors’ offices. What they may take for granted is the protections for health data that covered […].

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A Wide Range Of Problems Still Holding Back Health Data Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago.

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Know Your Data and How You’ll Use It

Healthcare IT Today

Many healthcare organizations are taking a fresh look at their data, hoping to exploit it better for both clinical outcomes and operations. But as Kreg Hall, Chief Data Officer, says, the variety of such data makes it complex and therefore hard to integrate.

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Clean, Usable Health Data and the Impact of Sharing Data with Partners

Healthcare IT Today

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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LunaDNA offers company shares in exchange for health data

Mobi Health News

The company claims it is the first to work with the SEC to figure out how consumers could exchange health data for equity.