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Finding a new health-related app that tracks symptoms, increases self-care behaviors, or offers disease-specific education can be exciting for consumers. However, many apps share information with a host of other companies for marketing purposes. Often, these companies have nothing to do with healthcare and are not even a business the individual uses. This knowledge can be scary when you consider the number of cybercriminals who are looking to gain access to critical patient data.
Knowing the risks apps create may leave you looking for a checklist to protect health-related data for those using apps to increase overall health and wellness. The good news is that it is possible to keep the data safe. The not-so-good news is that consumers need to do their homework to understand better what information is vulnerable to hackers and how to keep their health details safe, which can be a challenging skill…
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Posted by: Devin Morrissey |
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September 24, 2019 at 09:10PM
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