Digital health advances end with the PHE

Unless Congress acts, patients and physicians are going to lose out on digital health innovations allowed by PHE waivers, CHI says. According to experts with the Connected Health Initiative, numerous issues remain regarding how the expiration of PHE waivers would effect these two projects and others. Congress included provisions to keep telemedicine and acute hospital care at home for two years after the public health emergency ends. "I'll be honest; I've always worried about whether or not this day would arrive. We didn't want a throwback to the past. The revelation on Monday of a PHE end date was made, according to Morgan Reed, president of ACT | The App Association. One thing to be worried about is the elimination of remote monitoring, which hospitals employ for at-home programmes. Hospital-at-home may last for two years, but the program's operating digital link might not.