Several healthcare stakeholder groups developed a new framework that addresses privacy and security risks associated with digital health tools and apps that fall outside of HIPAA regulation.
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Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare is developing a blockchain-based digital app to improve patients' health by offering them incentives for healthy behavior.
Digital health is not in an investment bubble, though innovators may want to prepare for tighter capital markets in the future, according to a Rock Health report released May 2.
When it comes to using health apps as a part of research or health system initiatives, peer support, feedback and reminders encourage patients to keep on using the apps, according to a April 26 study published in the Journal of…
Mental health apps have worse privacy policies for users than most other app categories, according to a report released May 2 by Mozilla.
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When the tangle of data locked in EHRs is decoded and shared between organizations and institutions, important health insights can be discovered, Nature reported May 3.
Digital health companies focused on reproductive health are filling in the care gaps left by traditional healthcare for women who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant — a trend that will accelerate if Roe v. Wade is overturned, TechCrunch…
Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health and Houston (Texas) Methodist partnered with clinical intelligence company BioIntelliSense for advanced remote care.
Hospital executives agree that having a strong digital health strategy is important to achieving key objectives, but many struggle to efficiently evaluate and implement digital health products and services, according to a report released April 26 by digital health marketplace…
GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, led a series A $35 million funding round for a digital health pharmaceutical company Waltz Health.