The future of healthcare might not include privacy

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Telehealth and virtual care boomed during the pandemic. Same with technological advancements in consumer and medical-grade health devices. Together, they may lead to a future with better, more accessible healthcare — if outdated and insufficient privacy laws don’t continue to lag behind. Recode’s Sara Morrison explains This episode was made by: Host: Rani Molla Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mailchimp would like to talk to you about customers.
0:03.6	A customer is what happens when marketers fail to personalise their marketing,
0:07.8	grouping customers with very different behaviours into one tangled mess.
0:12.0	But with Mailchimp, marketers can use real-time behaviour data to personalise every email for every customer.
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0:22.4	Into it Mailchimp, the number one email marketing and automation brand.
0:26.8	Based on customer numbers for verification email, advertising at Mailchimp.com.
0:38.4	Healthcare has been heading online for a while now.
0:41.0	We use apps to track things like our fertility and sleep.
0:43.6	We wear fit-bits and Apple watches.
0:45.8	The pandemic has only made this transition more official.
0:48.6	Now more than ever before, we use phones and computers to communicate with doctors.
0:53.0	And a lot of people actually prefer it, including the doctors.
0:56.6	But even though going digital has been making it easier for a lot of people to get healthcare,
1:01.0	it has its problems.
1:04.0	Here to tell us more is Recode Sarah Morrison.
1:06.4	Hi, Sarah.
1:07.4	Hey, Ronnie. How's it going?
1:09.0	So tell me about some of the players in the space.
1:11.0	What tech companies are making wearables?
1:13.0	There's companies that you maybe haven't heard of that are dedicated to that.
1:17.2	One of those is called Woop. It's actually worth $3.6 billion.
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