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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. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style style GDPR?

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare AI Tools – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Check out our community’s predictions for Healthcare AI Tools : Florian Hillen, Founder and CEO at VideaHealth In 2025, AI will become a standard in dentist offices.

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Sicker Consumers Are More Willing to Share Health Data

Health Populi

This and other insights about the patient journey are published in Inside the patient journey , a report from Deloitte that assesses three key touch points for consumer health engagement. These three patient journey milestones are searching for care, using new channels of care, and tracking and sharing health data, Deloitte maps.

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Fitbit releases OS 3.0 for smartwatches, new dev tools, highlights third-party apps

Mobi Health News

The update looks to bring new health data and features to the forefront while streamlining the overall user experience.

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Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches

Healthcare IT Today

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. Both of the recent incidents, which were announced in mid-October, involved a Meta tracking tool known as Meta Pixel.

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Morgan Health Invests in Merative to Help Employers Turn Health Data into Action

Healthcare IT Today

Its critically important to put scalable, customizable solutions into employers hands to empower them to be more sophisticated purchasers of health care and make more precise decisions regarding the needs of their populations. Given this dynamic, data remains a major impediment for employers today.