Connected Health Initiative

Connected Health Initiative works to clarify outdated health regulations, incent the use of connected health technologies, and improve health outcomes.

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

Final Physician Fee Schedule delays remote monitoring staffing limit and drops some cuts but adds new hurdles for RPM and RTM
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[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

Healthcare AI doesn’t exist in a silo, and neither should governance.

Our updated Health AI Roles & Interdependency Framework maps a shared-responsibility model across the AI lifecycle - from developers to clinicians - ensuring patient safety without stalling innovation.

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[Sid Shah @Sid_Healthcare]

#US Fragmented state #AI rules could slow patient access _ @HealthisMobile | #healthcare https://t.co/K4bAyaZ4or

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

A 50-state patchwork of healthcare AI rules will hit small tech innovators hardest and ultimately slow patient access to care.

@MobiHealthNews broke down CHI’s new state framework for responsible AI oversight: shared responsibility, human oversight for high-risk decisions, and harmonized rules instead of conflicting state mandates.

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[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

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[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

"The Connected Health Initiative said CMS is relying on a flawed OIG report to justify a “sweeping structural change.” Executive Director @brianscarpelli said the proposal would force many practices — especially smaller, rural and safety-net providers that can’t build in-house monitoring operations — to abandon RPM and RTM programs their patients depend on."

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

Digital health remains a uniquely demanding category for founders, but the companies that get the fundamentals right continue to find capital and partners ready to back them.

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[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

Bridging the digital divide means taking the advanced tech tools used by the rest of the healthcare system and bringing them directly into the rural ecosystem.

As Dr. Oz told the CHI community earlier this month: If we do this right, we can leapfrog current barriers and transform rural care over the next 5 years.

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

It’s time to kill the clipboard, and axe the fax.

@DrOz knows that the future of health and medicine is here. Now it's up to us to seize it.

Earlier this month, he joined CHI for an event focused on rural healthcare expansion in DC.

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

In conversation with @kelhoops at @politico, @ONC_HealthIT's Thomas Keane talked about actions to crack down on info-blocking, a major barrier to the development of innovative health tech.

In his comments he highlights a greater issue, the lack of a comprehensive federal #privacy law!

On privacy, the gap between the law and consumer expectations and demands continues to widen. We need a comprehensive federal privacy law.

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

Current @IRSnews interpretations of “medical care” are stuck in the 1990s...modern "dual-use" technologies like smartwatches that can detect early signs of life threatening conditions can't be easily purchased with funds from Health Savings Accounts (HSA) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

Here's how the Administration can take immediate action to change this and deliver health care relief to millions of Americans

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[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

@realDonaldTrump can deliver health care relief to millions of Americans without spending a dime of taxpayer money.

@brianscarpelli, CHI executive director, lays out the case in @WashTimes.

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[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

“ACCESS represents a major milestone in the necessary integration of wearable devices, remote monitoring, and digital health platforms into the management of chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, chronic pain, and depression,” said Brian Scarpelli, executive director, Connected Health Initiative. “While traditional Medicare payment rules have not leveraged the incredible potential these tools offer to improve outcomes and reduce costs, the ACCESS Model empowers clinicians and care organizations to use wearable and other digital-health innovations. We have long emphasized that this shift is needed to improve preventive and maintenance care, reduce avoidable complications, and ultimately lower costs.”

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[CMS Innovation Center @CMSinnovates]

The ACCESS Model offers people with Original Medicare new choices to help them improve their health and manage chronic disease with modern technology-supported care. Learn more: https://t.co/8q6BPHQJkV

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

Ahead of a the government shutdown, we are calling on Congressional leadership to do the right thing and preserve telehealth access for the millions of Americans who rely on it.

Telehealth is critical to addressing barriers to care, such as inadequate transportation, long travel times, patient wait times and taking time off work. An extension of telehealth flexibility is needed to ensure stability and provide clarity for both patients and providers.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/Wen9Mo0qUU

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

"Ultimately, to best serve patients, all states should make wearable adoption, and the leveraging of the patient-generated health data they provide, a central pillar in their plans.”

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Last week's funding opportunity guidance from @CMSGov for the Rural Health Transformation Program “provides a broadly positive framework for the expanded adoption of emerging digital health technology that the Connected Health Initiative called for,” - @brianscarpelli, executive director

"While wearable devices were not explicitly mentioned, CHI believes the guidance’s emphasis on evidence-based interventions, namely remote patient monitoring tools and services, to improve prevention and treatment of disease shows an openness to the proven clinical benefit of wearable devices."

[HHS @HHSGov]

Rural America deserves a health care system built for reality, not one that’s made up of urban leftovers.

The Rural Health Transformation Program provides $50 billion across all 50 states, and applications are now open. We encourage governors to think big!

[Connected Health Initiative @HealthIsMobile]

“Throughout, CMS explicitly embraced several key CHI recommendations including encouraging the adoption of cloud services, prioritizing interoperability, and a requirement for broad stakeholder input to the application and on a continuing basis.

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