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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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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. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style style GDPR?

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The European Commission funds the launch of the EU mHealth Hub

mHealth Insight

The European mHealth Hub is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the action “Establishing EU mHealth Hub including evidence for the integration of mHealth in the healthcare systems” (Grant Agreement No 737427) and is a project promoted by the United Nations International Telecommunication (..)

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data.

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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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How mHealth Apps are redefining the medical sector

Waracle

Today we’re exploring how mHealth apps are redefining the medical sector. That’s right, the health and medical sector has been touted as one of the top three industries being transformed by the humble mobile device, and will likely retain its spot on the podium for some time if the figures are anything to go by. mHealth App Types.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data.

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