The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) spends our year addressing a wide range of digital health issues, but one of the most pressing issues in 2019 is health data interoperability. The efficacy of precision medicine, population health, clinical decision support—and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools in particular—depend in large part on the [...]
On Wednesday, July 10, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) commissioners will meet publicly to vote on a range of items, including a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to establish a three-year, $100 million pilot program to help healthcare providers cover the cost of broadband service that will [...]
Written by Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD | Founder of Rimidi In medicine, we often talk about meeting a patient where they are. Usually, this is in reference to their health literacy levels or their readiness to follow a treatment plan. It’s more challenging to physically meet patients where they are—especially [...]
Hi! We haven’t formally met, but I’m Ashley Durkin-Rixey, director of communications at ACT | The App Association. I joined the App Association in August of 2018. This is a personal story about digital health tools that begins with roller derby. I played competitive roller derby for about eight years [...]
Recently, during HIMSS19 in Orlando, FL, I had the pleasure of presenting on the new developments in Medicare’s approach to incentivizing the use of digital health tools in care delivery across several of its beneficiary programs. The updates I shared during my session are the result of years of cross-stakeholder [...]