Legislation

Two legislators talking in the U.S. Capitol
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:04 pm December 26, 2024
Artificial Intelligence technologies have the potential to improve multiple aspects of healthcare research, diagnosis and care delivery, according to a Bipartisan House Task Force Report on Artificial Intelligence. The report highlights America's leadership in its approach to responsible AI innovation, while at the same time considering guardrails that may be applicable to safeguard the nation...
Depressed person sitting on stairs
By  Jessica Hagen 12:37 pm December 11, 2024
Surgo Health, a technology and public benefit corporation creating a socio-behavioral analytics platform, has partnered with Melinda Gates' Pivotal and SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios to launch the Youth Mental Health Tracker, a database on youth mental health and wellbeing in the U.S. The tracker is a data platform designed to highlight where steps need to be taken to address young people's...
Nurse standing in the clinical setting
By  Jessica Hagen 03:59 pm November 27, 2024
Safety-focused large language model company Hippocratic AI has been issued its first patent by the U.S. Patent Office, which includes the company's LLM innovations incorporated into its safety-focused LLM built with a constellation architecture dubbed Polaris. Hippocratic AI's generative AI solution focuses on nondiagnostic healthcare tasks such as medication onboarding and monthly reconciliation...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration sign in front of a building
By  Jessica Hagen 12:22 pm May 3, 2024
Philips received a warning letter from the FDA in February, which the Agency posted on Tuesday, stating that an inspection of the tech giant's manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China, that makes CT and ultrasonography systems revealed it was not in compliance with the Quality System Regulation's good manufacturing requirements. The FDA said an inspection of the facility in October showed the...
Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
By  Jessica Hagen 12:37 pm September 22, 2023
The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act, initially introduced in the U.S. Senate in 2022 and reintroduced in March of this year, aims to amend the Social Security Act to provide Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for prescription digital therapeutics.  Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (...
Former U.S. Representative Patrick J. Kennedy, founder of the Kennedy Forum, and Nawal Roy, founder and CEO of Holmusk
By  Jessica Hagen 12:19 pm September 1, 2023
In part two of our two-part series, Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of The Kennedy Forum, and Nawal Roy, CEO and founder of global behavioral health data platform Holmusk, discuss with MobiHealthNews how coverage for mental health has changed since the signing of the parity act and what steps the partners are taking to help lawmakers draft even more effective bills to...
Former U.S. Representative Patrick J. Kennedy and Nawal Roy
By  Jessica Hagen 12:24 pm August 25, 2023
Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of the Kennedy Forum, is a leading voice on mental health and addiction. During his 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving Rhode Island's First Congressional District he coauthored and sponsored the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires insurers to cover mental health and substance use disorders the...
A person talking to a provider via a video call.
By  Emily Olsen 12:11 pm May 8, 2023
During the first year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Medicare improperly paid for $580 million of psychotherapy care, including $348 million of telehealth services, according to an audit by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General. The report, which estimated that Medicare paid for $1 billion of psychotherapy that year, included more than 13.5 million...
Moderator David Gray and Jodi Daniel
By  Emily Olsen 02:52 pm April 19, 2023
After years of slow movement advancing telehealth, remote patient monitoring and other digital health technologies, the landscape changed rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Jodi Daniel, managing director of Crowell Health Solutions.  At HIMSS23, Daniel, who previously served as the founding director of the Office of Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...