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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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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. As with other aspects of U.S.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Rock Health has conducted a consumer digital health study for several years, giving us the ability to compare longitudinal findings from year to year. The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

Two main factors underpin clinicians’ feelings of burnout: turnover and understaffing, and compassion fatigue, shown in the graph among two-thirds of the providers in the study. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey.

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BetterHelp Investigation by FTC & Privacy Update by DOJ

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FTC BetterHelp Investigation A January study by MarkUp and Stat showed how the top 50 telehealth startups routinely share sensitive patient information with marketing companies for profit. “Personal information” may be “health information” simply due to the nature of the product or service.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%.

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Personal Health LLM's to emerge in HealthTech 2024?

Lloyd Price

LLMs are essentially AI models trained on massive amounts of health data and text. What can Personal health LLMs do? Health Coaching: Imagine a virtual coach that can analyze your health data (with your permission, of course) and provide personalized recommendations for diet, exercise, and overall well-being.