On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its highly anticipated 2021 rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Quality Payment Program (QPP). These rules have had, and will continue to have, a massive impact on the use of digital health tools in [...]
If you’re like me, or about 40 percent of Americans (probably more by now), you’ve had at least one telehealth visit sometime during the pandemic. I was fortunate enough that my insurance provider covered the visits, but this isn’t usually the case for Medicare patients because hardly any of [...]
Recently, my colleague authored a resource (the 101 version of this “course,” for the academically inclined) to answer questions about European COVID-19 proximity tracing and exposure notification applications and to construct a best-practices framework for such apps. Now, we pivot our focus to the United States, where efforts to rally [...]
In light of the current global health crisis, more people are using the internet than before, making clear the relationship between broadband access and the app economy. During a time where all of us are working, learning, receiving healthcare, and entertaining ourselves at home, the internet is more integral to [...]
In a matter of weeks, the U.S. Congress has come a long way on telehealth. For years, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CH)) pushed for the removal of a critical barrier to widespread telehealth deployment: Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act, which severely restricts the circumstances [...]