Government & Policy (135)

Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute, discusses interoperability requirements between public health systems and outlines how centralizing person consent management for sharing healthcare and other data advances health equity.

Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), recommends that CMS get data from Medicare users to better address their health disparities.

FHIR standards provide a straightforward path to address payer and provider variability in data exchange and costs, say co-chairs of FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), Deepak Sadagopan and Duncan Weatherston, in a conversation about interoperability.

Erik Decker, Intermountain Health CISO and chair of the Health Sector Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses new reports and resources that are aimed at helping the healthcare industry manage a rapidly increasing number of cyberattacks.

Micky Tripathi, the ONC's national coordinator for health IT and 2023 Changemaker Award recipient, discusses the need for patients to learn about the limits of HIPAA protection so they can make more responsible health data decisions.

Abigail Norville from the Netherlands Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport explains that healthcare needs to evolve and we will need to foster and train our existing healthcare workforce to work in new ways.

Maria Hassel from the Swedish eHealth Agency says she is optimistic that EHDS legislation can be enacted within 12 months, with Sweden already using health data to improve health policy decisions and innovation.

Louisa Stuwe of France's Ministry of Health explains how the national "Ma Santé 2022" strategy paved the way for a national digital health doctrine, by engaging in multiple stakeholder and citizen consultations and by securing funding.

Louisa Stuwe of France's Ministry of Health explains how France promoted the development of 16 digital health ethics principles during its EU Presidency in 2022, to underpin both the EHDS and the digital health single market.

Louisa Stuwe of France's Ministry of Health explains how France established fast-track access and reimbursement for digital medical devices, both for remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics, which is similar to the German DiGA model.

Jeffrey Schneider at DoD and Navin Natoewal at Philips explain how algorithms and consumer wearables that predicted 73% of service members COVID-19 cases up to 2.5 days prior to symptoms could be used in healthcare.

David Novillo Ortiz of WHO-Europe discusses addressing workforce and health equity challenges across the region by driving e-health with four key strategies (tech guidance, enhancing capacity, knowledge exchange and by scaling up things that work).