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Top 10 Mobile Apps Used In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

By Kenneth Evans, content marketing specialist, Top App Development Companies. Mobile technology is amazing. With the available technologies, anyone can see a doctor using smartphones. The impact of app developers and mobile app developers is increasing in healthcare.

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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. User names were identified by one in five apps studied.

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Withings U-Scan: Measuring Waste for Health Benefits at Home

Healthcare IT Today

The U-Scan transmits data to the Withings app on your mobile device, which can integrate data into health suggestions. Through clever monitoring of the speed and direction of urine, the device can even distinguish different people who use the toilet. Watch the 10-minute video for Dewavrin’s take on the product.

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For Health Consumers, Trust, Privacy, & Good Experience Must Be Baked Into Digital Health Care

Health Populi

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

Health Populi

There’s a load of anecdotal data about teens and young adults (TYAs) and their always-on relationship with mobile phones and social networks. Fox is the go-to person on the role of the internet in healthcare, and particularly the opportunity for digital tools to enable peer-to-peer support. adults, found in other studies.

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The New Employer Wellness Lens Includes Mental Health, Telehealth and Women’s Health

Health Populi

That spending will have a strong focus on behavioral health services: 9 in 10 employers are concerned with the level of access workers have to mental health services. Of key import is the finding that 9 in 10 employers have plans to address mental health stigma in the next year.

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Health Populi

But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses. Remember that in 1996, there were no smartphones, mobile apps, or Internet clouds.

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