Broadband for All Grants & The Opportunity to Mitigate Healthcare Disparities
With the increasing demand for digital healthcare, the United States faces a growing challenge regarding equitable healthcare: unequal access to fast, reliable, and affordable broadband technology. Roughly 43 percent of adults in households making less than $30,000 a year—more than 25 million Americans—lack access to broadband, while 93 percent of adults making $100,000 or more have access to high-speed internet at home.[1] New federal funding, authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), has led to the creation of [...]
An Open Letter to Platforms Regarding Privacy Nutrition Labels
Privacy nutrition labels are among the most innovative and trendiest user-oriented privacy tools rolled out by digital platforms in recent years, with both Apple and Google gradually integrating them into their app stores and many other players in the internet ecosystem following their lead. These labels (first conceptualized by Innovators Network Foundation Privacy Fellow Lorrie Cranor in a series of papers), seek to distill complicated data processing activities into a more understandable format so that the average consumer can make [...]
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” [...]