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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

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Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. mHealth companies should implement a “zero-trust” approach to securing apps and APIs.

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

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I haven’t yet read all 1,244 pages of the Rule, but I gleaned sections on consumer privacy which underpins one of my two pillars on what’s a Health Citizen (FYI, as described in HealthConsuming , the second feature is health care as a civil right in a nation providing universal health care).

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

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(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health).

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