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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

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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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. 4 What Are Data Brokers and How Can They Hurt Your Clients? Where to find clinically helpful apps that can be trusted.

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Help us produce 2 new mHealth lectures for Medical Students next week

mHealth Insight

Next week I’m giving a couple of lectures at University College Dublin Medical School on the topics of “ How would the BornMobile generation redesign Medicine? Describe how the Healthcare Industry is failing to keep up with the changing needs of Patients and Carers. “Go and Get Help” no longer makes sense.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

How to deal? The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them. Thus, the industry must focus on the range of risks that can be mitigated from cyber-attacks to human error and system failures.

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mHealth guide to Mobile World Congress 2019

mHealth Insight

Last year mHealth fell off the radar for the GSMA and there was no mHealth content at the world’s biggest mobile industry conference and exhibition (held annually in Barcelona – [link]. GLOMO Awards: Fourth Industrial Revolution Live Presentation. Date & Time. Monday, 25 Feb. 10:00 – 10:30. Description.

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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. In 2021, the global digital self-management market received a total of $12.9

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