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mHealth in Times of Crisis: the Coronavirus

mHealth Insight

The “mHealth in Times of Crisis: the Coronavirus” event will be live streamed and made available to watch/share free of charge and we intend for it to provide a best practice resource that can help prevent and manage future emerging viral pandemics. 9:30am “A review of the mHealth decade”.

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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. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Therapy Apps: Need-To-Know Issues for Clinicians

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Mental health therapy apps can help clinicians bridge the gap, but only if clinicians know how to effectively use apps in their clinical practices and beyond to increase access to behavioral health information, support, and interventions worldwide. Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

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Focus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In January, 2019, the coordinating body for Health IT (ONC) released interoperability advice, connecting people to their care , that requires representing the relationship between a patient and another person (provider, caregiver, or family member). Tech adoption among the oldest has not kept pace with technology improvements.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

Including multiple options when it comes to learning how to become a telehealth specialist: A formal classroom training that is ATA accredited, check out these options: American Telemedicine Association , University of Arizona and University of California, Davis. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO.

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New Study of Mindfulness Apps & Online Programs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The importance of privacy considerations with mental health apps is a continued concern expressed by other app researchers who have issued warnings about the safety of protected health information collected. Use of Mobile Apps and Online Programs of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Training in Workers: A Scoping Review.

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The new Digital Health model : Disruption, Engagement, Integration and Trust

Lloyd Price

Singapore is now transitioning to a new digital health model. It is looking to move health information to the cloud. Emerging markets will leapfrog developed markets to move to the new digital health model (see Figure 4). Emerging markets are increasingly digitising health information.