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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. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Pay people for their data – yes, or no?

Society for Participatory Medicine

Latanya Sweeney , data scientist and data privacy thought leader extraordinaire. Data Commons Cooperative. Ciitizen (health data coop). Humantiv (health data coop). My31/Hu-manity (health data coop). Startups Plan the Health Data Gold Rush – The Scientist.

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

Virtual care also generates a wealth of patient data captured in real-time reporting across patient populations, health information, treatment responses, lifestyle patterns and medication adherence. The magazine provides insights and offers solutions to the issues that keep industry leaders awake at night.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context. Article #3 in my deep dive here extends the second analysis into digital health information, next focusing on Americans’ use of quality information on doctors.

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#PatientsIncluded statement for SPM’s Second Annual Conference: #SPM2018

Society for Participatory Medicine

He writes for WebMD, Psych Central, Bipolar magazine, and other publications. Angela and Grace Kennedy: Grace, at 16, is an expert patient portal user, sophisticated wearable device user, and expert decision-maker in her own health and health care. Doug Lindsay.