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Good morning well being tech readers!
We had an enormous day at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit West yesterday. It’s a small miracle that I managed to complete the publication with all that was occurring. Good to meet up with so many good individuals in particular person.
We’ll have some readouts from the Summit over the following few days. However right this moment, there may be a lot information to debate, so let’s get to it.
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Home strikes to dam state AI legal guidelines
The Home finances reconciliation invoice launched this week features a clause that may ban state and native governments from imposing legal guidelines on AI, even ones which have already been put in force. As STAT’s Brittany Trang experiences, this has enormous potential implications for states which have already handed legal guidelines relating to AI and medical health insurance, AI-drafted messages from docs, and psychological well being chatbots, in addition to normal AI client safety legal guidelines that overlap with well being care.
CMS and ASTP make broad well being tech data request
CMS and ASTP, the well being division’s well being IT regulator, launched a request for data this week about current insurance policies meant to advance IT adoption and what the regulators can do to additional promote tech. The questions cowl a lot territory that they defy easy abstract, so listed here are a handful that jumped out at me:
- What can CMS and its companions do to encourage suppliers, together with these in rural areas, to leverage accredited digital well being merchandise for his or her sufferers?
- What methods can CMS implement to assist suppliers in making high-quality, well timed, and complete healthcare information out there for interoperability within the digital product ecosystem?
- How would possibly CMS encourage suppliers to simply accept digital id credentials (for instance, CLEAR, ID.me, Login.gov) from sufferers and their companions as a substitute of proprietary logins that have to be tracked for every supplier relationship?
- How can CMS encourage suppliers to submit data blocking complaints to ASTP/ONC’s Data Blocking Portal? What can be the influence? Wouldn’t it advance or negatively influence information trade?
- What quick time period (within the subsequent 2 years) and longer-term steps can CMS take to stimulate developer curiosity in constructing digital well being merchandise for Medicare beneficiaries and caregivers?
One would possibly learn this doc as a complete view of subjects regulators hope to work on. Some are already studying mentions of TEFCA to imply that the federal government has not but determined to drag its assist for the nationwide information sharing framework that some really feel is on skinny ice. I not too long ago profiled well being tech entrepreneur Chris Klomp who’s now answerable for Medicare and seeking to make massive tech adjustments.
Elsewhere, Abe Sutton, the director of the CMS innovation middle, introduced a brand new technique with a deal with preventive care. There have been hints about potential well being tech instructions together with a pledge to “enhance beneficiary entry to data and instruments, together with mobile-device purposes, for illness administration and wholesome residing.”
Hims raises $1 billion, Freespira’s clearance, and extra
- Hims raised $1 billion in notes.
- Hinge Well being is concentrating on a valuation of almost $3 billion in its upcoming preliminary public providing. Its most up-to-date valuation, from 2021, was $6.2 billion, in response to PitchBook. The corporate hopes to boost over $400 million within the providing.
- PTSD-treatment machine Freespira acquired an expanded FDA clearance for teenagers aged 13 to 17. The machine and software program combo guides customers by managed respiration as a manner of decreasing stress, and it’s indicated as an adjunctive remedy for each PTSD and panic dysfunction. I profiled Freespira final 12 months.
- Headway, the psychological well being tech firm backed by Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, introduced a brand new answer that permits main care suppliers to simply refer sufferers to Headway for remedy by a behavioral well being supplier in its community. CEO Andrew Adams informed me the corporate has formal preparations with over 20 well being organizations for the mixing.
- Oak Road Well being govt Ravi Patel posted on LinkedIn that the care supplier, and its dad or mum firm CVS Well being, are making the soar to Epic Techniques’ medical file. He’s hiring somebody to assist him do it, perhaps that’s you. (H/T Brendan Keeler)
- Talking of hiring, I simply noticed this attention-grabbing Apple job posting for a medical affairs specialist for digital well being to “unfold consciousness of our digital well being merchandise and scientific strategy with the worldwide medical and analysis communities.”
What we’re studying
- Synchron will allow thought management of Apple units with mind implant, MobiHealthNews
- Former FDA head Robert Califf says RFK Jr.’s vaccine rhetoric is ‘doing hurt’ to People, STAT
