Health tech policy Q2 recap—HHS overhauls ONC, Congress dabbles in telehealth
Fierce Healthcare August 14, 2024
The 118th Congress and the Biden administration were hard at work in the last quarter to push their health technology policy priorities forward before their terms come to an end this December.
Since April, Congress has tackled a two-year Medicare telehealth policy extension, comprehensive health data privacy legislation, cybersecurity controls and a road map for healthcare AI. Congress has not passed any major health technology legislation yet in 2024, which leaves health program extenders to be hammered out after the August recess—or, more likely, during the lame duck session post-election.
The executive agencies have pushed out a trove of proposed and final regulations in the last four months. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized changes...