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 [...]

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on a proposal aimed at modernizing how consumers access cable and satellite programming. These rules will govern how consumers access devices (sometimes called “set-top boxes”) needed to view subscription cable and satellite content (termed by the FCC as “multichannel video programming,” [...]