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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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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

Digital Health Global

By examining vast amounts of patient data, healthcare professionals can recognize risk factors, predict outcomes, and develop personalized treatment plans. Furthermore, digital health tools such as wearable devices and mobile health apps enable patients to take a more active role in their health and wellness.

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How Remote Patient Monitoring Technology Enhances Communication and Care Delivery

Clear Arch Health

In this blog post, Clear Arch Health will explore the various ways that RPM revolutionizes and enhances communication between patients and healthcare providers to faciliate interaction, proactive intervention and streamlined workflows. Furthermore, RPM facilitates frequent communication between patients and care providers.

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

Health Populi

Consumers’ trust in all sources of health information increased between 2018 and 2020 except for peoples’ trust in online health websites/apps and social media, both of which lost a number of consumers trusting them. consumers would be willing to share their health data were Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.

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Cybersecurity frameworks in APAC don’t support remote care: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It shall identify and classify the data collected and develop customised risk management strategies for each type of health data. "For example, [medical devices for remote care] connected to a network are at higher risk of data leakage compared to medical devices that are not connected to a network.

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

Health Populi

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.