Public Policy

Gaurav Sharma, market innovator and global client partner at Cognizant, discusses the balance between accelerating healthcare's use of technology with putting regulations in place to protect patients.  

LifeSemantics plans to commercialise its mobile app-based AI screening solution by yearend.

The ONC's new rules could include advancements around public health IT certification requirements, electronic prior authorization, patient engagement tools and refinement to info blocking rules, says Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird.  

Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin, recommends that healthcare organizations follow basics such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and doing a security risk analysis.  

The company's Dream Sock, which received FDA 510(k) clearance in November, gathers real-time health readings, including a baby's sleep trends and pulse rate.

The Agency has qualified Apple's atrial fibrillation history feature as a medical device development tool, allowing it to be used in clinical trials.

The Agency alleges the company's CT and ultrasonography systems are noncompliant with good manufacturing requirements.

Abigail Norville, deputy secretary general of the Netherlands' Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, talks about the challenges of digitizing Dutch healthcare amid patients' data privacy concerns and clinicians' interest in driving efficiency.  

Sales Director at CenTrak and South Florida HIMSS president Kendall Brown talks about the bridge between her sales experience and state-policy advocacy.  

They had been designated as innovative medical devices.