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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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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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Going beyond killer apps: building a better mHealth evidence base

mHealth Insight

An interesting BMJ mHealth paper by David Peiris (Director of Health Systems Science) , J Jaime Mirand (Research Professor at the School of Medicine and Director of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) and David C Mohr (Professor at The Feinberg School of Medicine). mHealth Insights.

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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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Telehealth, HIPAA compliance and innovation tracking

Aging in Place Technology Watch

You love it, I’m sure, once you created your Skype ID, learned how to sign on and most importantly, sign out. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. You’re ready for telehealth, having used Skype. Oh, you haven’t used it ? Your healthcare provider isn’t running any training today.

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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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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Topline, consumers “faced difficult choices,” Accenture notes in the report, choosing whether and how to continue their personal health care seeking to limit their risks of exposure to COVID-19. Patients represented one of three conditions, with one-third each managing cardiovascular, immunology/rheumatology, and oncology.