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Telehealth firm GoodRx fined $1.5m over privacy breach

Telehealth and discount medicines provider GoodRx has been ordered to pay a $1.5 million fine by the US authorities for sharing its customers' sensitive health information

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Data privacy concerns don't hinder digital health app usage

A new survey conducted by juli, an AI-powered chronic condition platform, has revealed that the value placed on

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NHS data sharing scheme "on hold" as millions opt out

The NHS' much-vaunted GP data-sharing initiative looks to be on a prolonged hiatus, with at least one report suggesting it has been hit by 1.2 million people choosing to opt out of the sche

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WHO cautions against overestimating AI's impact on health

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the delivery of healthcare, but only if ethics and human rights are put at its heart of its design and use, according to the World

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UK gov't defends NHS data sharing plans in strategy document

The UK's Department of Health and Social Care has published a document setting out its strategy on handling patient data – and defending its plan to transfer millions of GP records into a c

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