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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks. ” The point is that claiming our mental health now IS mainstream… whatever your age or stage.

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Health Consumers Are Now Amazon-Primed for Healthcare – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 2

Health Populi

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. Joseph Health. Expanding Alexa skills to join the growing tele-mental health supply side.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. 2 While mHealth apps may have improved needed care access, some have secretly collected and sold sensitive mental health information to other companies.3 Health Tech Magazine, September 23, 2020.

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Bonus Features – March 5, 2023 – Two-thirds of patients connect with regular docs when they need medical care when traveling, half of clinical workflow automation users plan to expand their use, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Becker’s Healthcare and OmniLife Health reported that 30% of health systems and transplant centers use clinical workflow automation , and 48% of those organizations plan to expand its use. The Puerto Rico Health Information Exchange committed to joining Health Gorilla’s anticipated QHIN.

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Pay people for their data – yes, or no?

Society for Participatory Medicine

Startups Plan the Health Data Gold Rush – The Scientist. image credit: CIO Magazine]. Intellectual property’s vital role in healthcare’s AI-driven future – Pharmaphorum.

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Data service firm LogicStream Health is collaborating with FDB , integrating the FDB MedKnowledge database into its Drug Supply App. HIE entity Santa Cruz Health Information Organization is collaborating with the Santa Cruz 2-1-1 Program to share information related to housing, transportation, and food services.

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A Citizen’s Response Corps for Digital Health

Society for Participatory Medicine

Though he had never practiced medicine, he wrote prolifically, serving as the medical editor of the counterculture magazine Whole Earth Catalog and representing a strain of self-sufficiency within the hippie movement. Its articles focused on how to build your own house, plant your own garden, and nurture your own health to prevent disease.