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From health IT initiatives to use of medical devices, government leaders spoke about what their agencies are doing to spur innovation and ensure regulation doesn't hold innovation back during a panel this week at the mHealth Summit near the District of Columbia.
At the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Jodi Daniel, the agency's director of the Office of Policy Planning, talked about a continuing shift in focus from electronic health records and Meaningful Use to thinking about how healthcare technology can be leveraged more broadly--including via mobile health.
Just this week the ONC released an updated federal health IT strategic plan (http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/oncs-updated-federal-hit-plan-focuses-interoperability/2014-12-08) . The framework centers around the sharing, collection...