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Comments to the European Commission on Health Data Spaces
The Center for Data Innovation welcomes the goals of the EHDS initiative and agrees that adopting measures to enable better data exchange will facilitate artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled healthcare applications in the EU and allow firms to pursue economies of scale across EU markets.
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February 12, 2021
Usage of Digital Technologies for Healthy Aging in COVID-19
Stephen Ezell presented to the UN Commission on Social Development on Lessons Learned from the Use of Digital Technologies to Promote Healthy Aging in the Era of COVID-19.
February 4, 2021
Comments to the European Commission on Health Data Spaces
The Center for Data Innovation welcomes the goals of the EHDS initiative and agrees that adopting measures to enable better data exchange will facilitate artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled healthcare applications in the EU and allow firms to pursue economies of scale across EU markets.
February 4, 2021
How Can Europe Enhance the Benefits of AI-Enabled Health Care?
ITIF's Center for Data Innovation hosted a discussion about what the healthcare sector needs to create a positive impact and increase innovation using AI.
January 4, 2021
The Year Ahead: Twenty-Four Ways Congress and the Biden Administration Can Advance Good Tech Policy in 2021
If Washington wants to show voters that government is doing something more than simply saying no or being ideologically dug in, then lawmakers and the administration should work to advance a set of actionable technology policy measures that would grow the U.S. economy.
December 7, 2020
Fact of the Week: Artificial Intelligence Can Save Pharmaceutical Companies Almost $54 Billion in R&D Costs Each Year
AI can reduce the time it takes to synthesize and screen new drugs by 40 percent to 50 percent, reducing costs in those parts of the research process by as much as $26 billion annually.
June 15, 2020
Podcast: Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Healthcare, With Pat Combes
People have been working on digital transformation of health care for decades, but the COVID pandemic has added urgency to the challenge. This is creating a window of opportunity to reinvent how the health care system works.
May 26, 2020
Building a Global Framework for Digital Health Services in the Era of COVID-19
Health data and digital technologies will be essential for improving global health outcomes beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Low- and middle-income nations, with fledgling digital health strategies and many barriers to overcome, stand to benefit the most.
May 7, 2020
Viruses Cross Borders. To Fight Them, Countries Must Let Medical Data Flow, Too
In the midst of the worst global pandemic in living memory, many nations make it unnecessarily complicated and costly, if not illegal, for health data to cross their borders. In so doing, they are hindering critically needed medical progress.
April 29, 2020
Will Telehealth Still Be Available After the Pandemic Is Over?
ITIF hosted a video webinar to discuss the rapid changes that have occurred in telehealth, their implications for patients and providers, and the actions policymakers still need to take to unlock the full potential of the technology.
April 6, 2020
Digital Policy for Physical Distancing: 28 Stimulus Proposals That Will Pay Long-Term Dividends
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed gaps in society’s digital readiness for social distancing. If policymakers seize the opportunity to address these gaps, they can make it easier to manage the next pandemic while providing significant long-term social and economic benefits.

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