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 [...]
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 [...]
On February 1, 2019, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) convened a multistakeholder dialogue on the role of artificial intelligence/augmented intelligence (AI) in healthcare in Washington, DC. The purpose of this dialogue was to address the role of machine learning and AI in improving healthcare, preventing hospitalizations, [...]
When consumers think of artificial intelligence or augmented intelligence (AI) today, they may think of Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa. Or if they are more familiar with 2001: A Space Odyssey, they may remember HAL 9000’s quip, “I’m sorry Dave, I am afraid I can't do that.” All joking aside, [...]