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New COVID-19 reporting requirements causing 'chaos'; contact tracing app has privacy issues

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: COVID-19 reporting requirements causing 'chaos'; contact tracing app has privacy issues Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Steering healthcare's digital evolution: Marrying technology with the human element

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The development of a patient-assistance app during this crisis exemplifies technology’s potential in offering practical solutions. It is imperative to develop robust digital security measures and educate healthcare professionals about data privacy. This experience has provided valuable lessons for future healthcare crises.

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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

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Another article in the same week in Business Insider revealed that Apple acknowledged it is " scaling back " a key project, an app called Health Habit. The app allows Apple employees to log fitness goals, manage hypertension, and talk to clinicians and coaches at AC Wellness, the doctors' group that Apple works with.

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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

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Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Apps, apps and more apps. You may think that the coronavirus would have eroded some of that competition and opened the doors of collaboration.

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

consumers are now tracking health via digital tools, and one-half of these share the data generated by their apps. Clinicians continue to have real concerns about clinical validity (per the AMA’s Dr. James Madara’s comment that so many of these tools and apps can be “digital snake oil.” One in two U.S.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

There are reasons underneath this value-calculation I’ll address in another post: top-line for me is Americans’ lack of comprehensive data privacy protection and lack of opt-in to data collection in everyday life (addressed in the concluding Hot Points , below). The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care.

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Vocal Markers Move Toward Clinical Use

Healthcare IT Today

A simple app on a cell phone can detect unusual patterns in speech that suggest when a person is depressed or anxious, is losing cognitive function, or has pulmonary disease. Koye in turn is promoting a Sonde app to clinicians. The app, if widely deployed, could provide important advance notice like checking waste water for disease.