Policy and Legislation
Governments must effectively leverage behavioral, economic and movement data to improve outcomes during future pandemics, says Dame Sally Davies, former CMO for England and current Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, UK.
This week's top stories include the FBI and HHS warning hospitals of malicious actors looking to infect health systems on a large scale, and provider groups pushing back against Trump's claims that doctors are inflating COVID-19 numbers.
To support health equity, Congress must expand telehealth access, says HIMSS Public Policy Committee Chair Terri Ripley.
Daniel Forslund, chairman of the Innovation and Development Committee in Region Stockholm, says providers and citizens have an open mindset, which has enabled rapid digital transformation to take place effectively during COVID-19.
This week's top stories include the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg and what that could mean for the Affordable Care Act, femtech companies calling out Facebook and the emergence of social informatics.
There is a need for regulatory "agility" during the coronavirus pandemic, says Dr. Amy Abernethy, principal deputy commissioner at the U.S. FDA.
This week's top stories include California passing a law mandating a 45-day supply of PPE, digital health company GoodRX filing to go public, and healthcare execs naming telehealth as their No. 1 pandemic tech problem.
This week's top stories include the VA giving scheduling technology a test run, fines for nursing homes not complying with testing regulations and telehealth giant Amwell getting a $100 million funding boost from Google Cloud.
This week's top stories include AdventHealth lamenting $260 million in losses, Dr. Fauci "cautiously optimistic" there will be a vaccine by early 2021 and a study finding ICD-10 codes may not effectively capture patients with cough and fever.
Harvard Global Health Institute Director Dr. Ashish Jha says disinformation and diverging containment strategies have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.