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Moving from 'sick care' to prevention over cure with technology

Mobi Health News

With the ambitious mission to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth, Babylon Health, an AI-powered smartphone app, was founded in January 2013 and launched to the public in April 2014.

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

The top-demanded health consumer digital health applications included, The ability to find doctors and make appointments online, for 51% of people. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%. Finally, 33% of Americans are comfortable (net) sharing their health information with tech companies.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

. “It is ironic,” they write, “that although patients (and their physicians) still have difficulty obtaining complete medical record information in a timely fashion, the HIPAA Privacy Rule permits massive troves of patients digital health data to traverse the medical-industrial complex unmonitored and unregulated.”

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Moving from ‘sick care’ to prevention over cure with technology

Mobi Health News

With the ambitious mission to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth, Babylon Health, an AI-powered smartphone app, was founded in January 2013 and launched to the public in April 2014.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

Smartphone adoption among older people grew by 50% since 2014, rising from 48% adoption among people 50+ to 79%. practicing physicians to carry the health data privacy and security burden? But are we asking too much of U.S. Under the current privacy regime of HIPAA for healthcare, indeed, we are.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

I interviewed Fred for research I was conducted on behalf of the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) in 2014. Latanya found that just a few data points — which fell out of HIPAA-privacy protected flows — could re-identify a person with, say, HIV positive status, a mental health DSM-code, or degenerative disease.