Becker's Healthcare February 14, 2023
Naomi Diaz

Telehealth and therapy apps are selling patient’s healthcare data to data brokers who are then packing and selling data starting at $275, The Washington Post reported Feb. 13.

According to the report, the pandemic-era rise of telehealth and therapy apps has created a market boom for mental health data, and data brokers are capitalizing on it by reselling it for government or commercial use.

A research team at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy recently published a study that analyzed the market for U.S. mental health data and found that 11 companies were willing to sell...

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