Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) with health insurance subsidies, future negotiations for Medicare drug prices, and caps on insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries.

Healthcare providers increasingly use mobile apps and web applications as part of the move to telemedicine. If you’re a developer creating a digital health technology, then you need to make sure that your app meets the HIPAA compliance requirements.

Best Buy has signed an agreement to acquire Current Health, a leading care-at-home technology platform that brings together remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organizations.

“The industries we regulate are constantly innovating… The FDA must keep pace,” Janet Woodcock, FDA’s acting commissioner, wrote.

Above all else Watkins and MacKinnon stress the importance of having a clear company strategy to help guide growth.

Federal health officials are weighing how to implement the lessons they have learned from this pandemic to prepare for the next one.

Beginning on July 1, CMS will enforce its Interoperability and Patient Access final rule which requires payers and providers to break down the silos that prevent patient access to personal health information.

"For more than a decade, bipartisanship on healthcare has been very hard to come by," said Schatz. "But the single shining exception is telehealth."

The request: Last week, AdvaMed, the lobbying organization for the medical device industry, sent a letter to the White House asking the Biden administration to prioritize shipments of medical devices at crowded ports.