Public Policy

Since January 2021, all  72 million statutorily insured German citizens have been legally entitled to a national electronic patient record (ePA).

The agency will allow some COVID-19 tests to be used at home for regular asymptomatic testing.

This week's top stories include the House approving a bill that expands the scope of those who qualify for financial help, bad bots complicating vaccine sign-ups, and PatientPoint merging with Outcome Health to form a patient engagement entity.

The system delivers its results to a companion app in about 20 minutes, according to the agency.

  Media reports indicate that One Medical has allowed people connected with company executives and other ineligible individuals to skip the vaccination line.   

The Analytic for Hemodynamic Instability tool can identify hemodynamic instability with 96% sensitivity and detects stable patients with 85% specificity.   

Industry regulatory leaders outline the best approaches for digital health companies looking to make sense of FDA's long-in-the-tooth enforcement discretion guidelines.

Mahana Therapeutics' Parallel is a three-month digital treatment that logs patients' symptoms to deliver relevant guidance and teach them condition-management skills.

Bradley Merrill Thompson, an FDA-watcher, lawyer and occasional MobiHealthNews guest contributor, joins the MobiHealthNews team for a closer look at what the FDA has been up to around digital health and AI.

The HIMSS Media team gives a recap of recent headlines surrounding the FDA, COVID-19 and new digital health software products.