Tag: Health_Innovation

• A 5G Inflection Point on the Horizon By Jayne Stancavage, Executive Director of Communications Policy One of the aspects of my job that excites me the most is knowing the 5G technology I’m working to implement has the capacity to improve the lives of people both in the US and around the world. Nothing illustrates this potential better than considering how 5G can transform the healthcare industry...
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• Innovation in healthcare can revolutionize patient outcomes By Mário Romão, Health and Data Policy at Intel The statistics are sobering. More than 1 in 3 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes. Efforts in science, medicine and public health have led to a decrease of the mortality rate in the US (1.8 percent and 1.4 percent per year from 2006-2015,...
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• Addressing the Opioid Crisis with the Help of Technology Note: This post is based on a discussion hosted by Jennifer Esposito, Intel's Worldwide General Manager, Health and Life Sciences Group, on June 12th, 2018, with ADM Brett P. Giroir, M.D., Assistant Secretary of Health at the Department of Health and Human Services; David Barash, M.D., Executive Director, Global Health Portfolio and Chief Medical Officer at the GE Foundation; Andrew Sperling,...
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• 2018 Bodes Well for Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health and Data Policy If 2017 ended on a high for telehealth and remote patient monitoring, the start of 2018 also did not disappoint. Indeed, on Feb 9, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 was signed into law. This bill, which provides a budget agreement for 2018-2019, also includes a number of policy provisions in support...
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• Winds are Changing for Remote Patient Monitoring In my last blog post I referenced the launch of the Intel® Health Application Platform for remote healthcare and also the recent solicitation for comments on “Current Year 2018 Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule” (PFS), in which the Centers for Medicare 7 Medicaid Services (CMS) asked for input on how to pay for remote patient monitoring...
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• Advancing Precision Medicine, Promoting Better Patient Outcomes The U.S. is making exciting strides in precision medicine. Yesterday, Intel and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT announced revolutionary developments advancing the use of high-performance computing for genomics analytics that will accelerate precision medicine. Together we have created a new architecture, the Broad-Intel Genomics Stack (BIGstack), that dramatically improves the genomic analytics pipeline and supports data volumes at...
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• How 5G and IoT Will Transform Healthcare by Bob Rogers, chief data scientist for big data solutions Technology and healthcare recently came together as part of a public forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. I was honored to join representatives from the FCC and the health industry at this eminent institution to discuss how the advent of 5G, and the policies that enable it, will...
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• Need for a 21st Century Immigration Policy Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini, along with other members of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, wrote a joint op-ed on the need for a 21st Century immigration policy. Check out the op-ed, which is posted belowAmerica needs a 21st century immigration policyMay 19, 2011 11:47 EDTFrom members of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness President Obama’s recent focus...
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• Intel’s Op-Ed in Support of Privacy Legislation Today, The Hill's Congress Blog published an op-ed written by David Hoffman, Intel's Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer.  In the op-ed, David argues that putting in place a legal and regulatory system that provides for strong privacy protections is key to consumer adoption of technology and thus to the growth of our business.  The op-ed also discusses the recent...
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• Intel Supports Kerry-McCain Privacy Legislation and Administration’s Call for Legislation Today, Intel, along with eBay, Microsoft and HP, issued a joint statement supporting the introduction by Senator John Kerry and Senator John McCain of the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act. Intel has long advocated for comprehensive federal privacy legislation, which we believe will promote innovation and ensure consumer trust in the use of technology. We support the Kerry-McCain bill’s...
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