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Most health apps have the ability to collect and share patient data, study finds

Mobi Health News

While mHealth apps collect and share user data less often than other types of apps, researchers say these apps have serious privacy problems.

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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. The second chart inventories the types and frequency of user data shared with third parties.

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The rise of mHealth and the convergence of medicine with AI and Big Data

Lloyd Price

This report will explore the rise of mHealth and the convergence of medicine with AI and Big Data. mHealth will unlock the cheapest and most efficient healthcare and make it available to billions of people via their smartphones.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.

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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. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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Connecting for Health at Home: A Unified Field Theory from #CES2025 (On Samsung, Withings, and Panasonic)

Health Populi

Antoine Joussain and I brainstormed the future of health/care at home through various Withings’ offerings which in 2025 fall into 3 categories: devices, data, and services. A physician, Pak spoke about Samsung Health’s growing Home AI ecosystem for supporting consumers in their health goals.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.