data privacy

Data collaboration is key to healthcare's future, but letting organizations collaborate while maintaining confidentiality is critical, claims Intel's Chris Gough.

Also: Study lends support to smartphone PPG pulse oximetry; Happify Health adds new language support to digitial mental health programs.

Digital health and data experts illustrate the risk of sharing anonymized fitness data and call for systematic reform.

Contact tracing apps, symptom checkers and other data-driven tools provide tangible benefits, but experts say that more can be done to educate individuals on what information they collect and how it's handled.

A recent survey suggests that patients value knowledge of how exactly their personal information will be used.

The proposed legislation would make companies seek consent from consumers before collecting personal data to track COVID-19, among other data privacy requirements. No Democratic senators have attached themselves to the bill.

The MobiHealthNews staff shares its thoughts on how HIPAA, investor funding, digital health commercialization and other focus areas will be changing over the course of the new year.

Thailand's healthcare informatics system is using lessons other countries learned the hard way, particularly in terms of data privacy, says TPP Healthcare International's Togio Chayanuwat.

A UK-based research group reports that period tracking app Maya and MIA are sharing sensitive data with Facebook.

Kathy Minnis, director of product strategy at Microsoft, says clinicians must be empowered with the right tools that remove barriers to reconnecting with patients, while protecting data privacy.