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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. User names were identified by one in five apps studied. style GDPR?

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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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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. Three-fourths of U.S.

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E&T: Health apps frequently neglect privacy of users, study finds

mHealth Insight

Hilary Lamb at Engineering & Technology reports on a study that has found “Health apps frequently neglect privacy of users” mHealth Insights. They studied how the apps stored and monitored personal data, such as information about past health conditions.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

If user experience is positive, then consumers will sustain their use of the innovation over time — a barrier which health-focused wearables, in particularly, have encountered. In this study, one in four wearable tech owners said they no longer used the device. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

The CCHP website also houses a vast resource center with research catalogs compiling peer-reviewed studies in several telemedicine domains. mHealth : mHealth stands for mobile health and refers to healthcare apps and services delivered via mobile technology like smartphones and tablets.