WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Disrupter Series: Health Care Apps."
The Disrupter Series continues next week with an examination of mobile health care applications (apps) that do everything from tracking a patient’s chronic health conditions, to monitoring a fetal heartbeat and providing physicians with decision-making support in clinical settings. Members will explore how mobile health care apps are disrupting the ways in which doctors and patients engage in the health care system and impact the affordability, accessibility, and delivery of care.
“Health care apps are disrupting the way patients engage with their doctors and medical data, transforming the industry as we know it. With the tap of a finger, patients can download apps to monitor vital health data like heart rate and blood sugar and give them immediate access to their physician and other life-saving services and information. The potential of this technology to reduce health care costs, while also increasing the quality and accessibility of care, is incredibly promising," said Burgess. “This hearing will explore how these apps are disrupting and modernizing the health care industry while bringing it into the 21st century."
Over the past year the subcommittee’s Disrupter Series has provided an opportunity for the committee to understand how federal policies help and hinder economic growth of emerging technologies. The series has helped shaped the drafting of thoughtful, targeted legislation to ensure our policies are modernized for the 21st century and put innovation first. Next week’s hearing builds upon previous discussions of Internet of Things, sharing economy, drones, mobile payments, 3D printing, and digital currency.as they are posted.
