Patients grow more open with their health data during pandemic - Axios

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-08-15

Summary:

"Americans are more willing in the wake of the coronavirus to share their medical data in order to take advantage of the benefits of telemedicine.

Why it matters: For telemedicine to succeed, patients have to be open to sharing possibly sensitive personal health information online — and the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic seem to have helped lower that bar...."

Link:

https://www.axios.com/health-data-covid-privacy-telehealth-coronavirus-0bf20c64-e20a-4edf-8838-1b8c9a79c893.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.medicine oa.humanitarian oa.privacy oa.patients oa.lay

Date tagged:

08/15/2020, 13:28

Date published:

08/15/2020, 09:28