Healthcare DIVE November 22, 2017
Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

  • For personal health technology to truly impact health outcomes, governments and the private sector need to endorse policies that support its adoption and use, a new report by the Personal Connected Health Alliance says.
  • Key priorities include reimbursement for personal connected health approaches and technologies, expansion of telehealth to include remote patient monitoring and use of patient generated data in urban areas, and frameworks and guidelines that advance interoperability and data privacy.
  • The alliance said it will use the report to mobilize its membership to work toward these strategic objectives.

Dive Insight:

Over the past decade, a number of laws such as the HITECH Act and MACRA, have been enacted to increase access and use around...

Today's Sponsors

LEK
ZeOmega

Today's Sponsor

LEK

 
Topics: Digital Health, Health IT, Market Research, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Regulations, Telehealth
Lee Health to launch hospital-at-home program
Overweight, Obesity to Affect 64% of Americans by 2050
GLP-1 reduced heart failure risk by 46%: 8 study takeaways
Yale New Haven Health upgrades Epic
Demand for birth control, abortion pills skyrocket post-election

Share This Article