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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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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. 4 What Are Data Brokers and How Can They Hurt Your Clients?

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Digital self-management emerging as a new high growth HealthTech sub-sector in 2024

Lloyd Price

The growth of the digital self-management market is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, the rising demand for personalized healthcare, and the growing adoption of mobile health (mHealth) technologies. link] What exactly is Digital self-management? billion in funding, up from $8.9

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10 must-know perspectives on digital transformation for healthcare IT leaders

Redox

Aside from the painfully obvious headline, this article contains some rather shocking stats related to how often health data outside the EHR isn’t used. Idea with legs: User experience matters, because without a good one, health data goes unused. The Journal of mHealth. CEO Digital.

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Cerebral Telehealth: 2023’s Second Largest Patient Data Breach

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Privacy concerns become an issue for some mental health app companies when recent research suggests that a number of them routinely sell sensitive mental health data to data brokers, who, in turn, resell the information to buyers on the open market. Read More

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The innovative technologies transforming healthcare

Waracle

Whether it’s blood pressure, steps, sleep or anything that sits in the wider self care space, embracing health data into daily life is truly at a watershed moment. These trends are driving growth in mHealth, a sector which is expected to become a $189bn industry by 2025. Machine Learning for issue identification.

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American Medical Association launches a Healthcare Interoperability & Innovation Challenge with Google

mHealth Insight

” This is an incredible turn around as the AMA CEO has been pointing fingers at mHealth and making claims it’s little more than modern day snake oil. Barbe, M.D., The three best ideas that are submitted to the Challenge by June 7, 2018 will be selected to share $50,000 in credits for Google Cloud.