Opportunities and challenges for UK and EU businesses in the U.S. digital health sector
With the advent of new technologies, U.S. healthcare is changing and creating opportunities for digital health innovators. On 5 October 2022, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) hosted a webinar to discuss opportunities in the U.S. healthcare industry. Access the recording of the webinar here. Access event slides here. As of 2021, the U.S. healthcare industry was worth $808 billion. It’s a big market and one that many UK and EU healthtech companies want to enter. [...]
ACT | The App Association Welcomes President Biden’s Executive Order to Implement the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
President Joe Biden unveiled an Executive Order On Enhancing Safeguards For United States Signals Intelligence Activities to create the legal instruments necessary to effectuate the previously announced Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework with the European Commission. The framework essentially paves the path toward reinstating the transatlantic data sharing mechanism previously known as Privacy Shield, and this Executive Order marks the completion of first formal legal step required to complete that journey. The European Commission will now evaluate the new redress and [...]
Opportunities and Challenges for UK and EU businesses in the U.S. Digital Health Sector
Join us on 5 October at 15:00 GMT for an online event that will help UK and EU companies break into the U.S healthcare market. The event will explain how the U.S. system works for payment/reimbursement, as well as how U.S. government grants can create new partnerships and opportunities. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m0UPu5R4Sd64ReT5u60-Ug Many UK and EU companies wish to break into the U.S. healthcare market but struggle because of the complexity of the system, which includes a mixture of federal [...]
ACT | The App Association report reveals app ecosystem contributed €210 billion to the EU economy in 2021
Mobile app industry now represents 0.7 per cent of GDP and employs an estimated 1.4 million people Brussels, Belgium, 3 October, 2022 – A new report commissioned by ACT | The App Association and prepared by Deloitte Finance reveals the app economy contributed €210 billion in direct and indirect revenues in the European Union (EU) in 2021. The report entitled “The App Economy in Europe – A review of the mobile app market and its contribution to the European Economy” [...]
Improving Medical Device Interoperability
On September 29, 2022, Representatives Miller-Meeks, O’Halleran, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability. Morgan Reed, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), expressed CHI’s support for the bill: “Interoperability is critical to realize the promise of digital health and enable better, more cost-effective, patient-centered care. Patients and caregivers benefit immensely from the introduction of new, innovative medical devices and their evolving [...]
Celebrating Girls in Tech: Creating Space for the Next Generation of Innovators
It is no secret that girls and women are systematically tracked away from science and math throughout their education, limiting their access, preparation, and opportunities to go into these fields as adults. In fact, women make up only 28 percent of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, which aligns with how men vastly outnumber women majoring in most STEM fields in college. And unfortunately, the gender gap is particularly high in some of the fastest-growing and highest-paid jobs [...]