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AMA employs principles to promote secure, accurate mHealth apps
The AMA recently developed a list of principles to guide coverage, payment and financial incentive mechanisms that support the use of mobile health applications and devices that are safe and effective, according to a press release. “The new AMA principles aim to foster the integration of digital health innovations into clinical practice by promoting coverage and payment policies that are contingent upon whether [mobile health applications (mHealth apps)] and related devices are evidence-based, validated, interoperable and actionable,” Steven J. Stack, MD, immediate past president of AMA, said the press release. (Read more...)