For this edition of Member Mondays, our membership manager Nick Miller conducted an interview with Juliana Bain. Juliana is a freshman at Cornell University and is the daughter of ACT | The App Association member David Bain from TM Technologies. Juliana is a computer science major and epee fencer at [...]
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released long-awaited rules pertaining to Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which was passed by Congress in 2015. The 2,200-page rule is intended to provide the foundation for the future of the Medicare reimbursement system. ACT’s Connected Health Initiative [...]
Last night, the Department of Justice filed a petition requesting the Second Circuit Court of Appeals revisit its unanimous decision that the government could not use a warrant to force American companies to share data on users' emails stored abroad. In response, Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT | The App Association, [...]
Today, HHS Office of Civil Rights released guidance to clarify HIPAA obligations for companies storing and sharing health information in the cloud. This comes after a 2014 pledge to Congress from HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell to work with ACT | The App Association and its Connected Health Initiative to make the regulatory environment better for connected [...]
Today, ACT | The App Association and a broad group of tech organizations and individuals filed a joint amicus brief in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to oppose a temporary restraining order that would delay the IANA transition. Accordingly, ACT | The App Association President [...]