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Trust gap: Health apps and data sharing

April 29, 2019 By Susannah Fox 21 Comments

There has been a steady drip-drip-drip of articles documenting how health apps are sharing data with third parties: Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis, by Grundy et al. (British Medical Journal, Feb. 25, 2019) You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook. Wall […]

Health Geek Radio: Adam Bosworth’s Straight Talk Express

May 4, 2010 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

Adam Bosworth of Keas delivered quite a lecture yesterday at the Alliance for Healthcare Foundation. He talks about how Americans don’t really like data (but they need it), why “frugal innovation” is the best path for start-ups, how e-Patient Dave shook up the EHR world, why health privacy legislation would kill patient-driven research, and why […]

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Trust gap: Health apps and data sharing

Health Geek Radio: Adam Bosworth’s Straight Talk Express

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