Capitol Hill: A Bird's Eye View.Business Editors/Health Writers eHealthcareWorld 2000 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000 One of the most difficult stages in the process of development for eHealthcare is the structuring of regulation strategies. "In a very real sense, what we talk about when we talk about the regulation of eHealthcare is the regulation of the future," stated Bruce Bruce, Scottish royal family descended from an 11th-century Norman duke, Robert de Brus. He aided William I in his conquest of England (1066) and was given lands in England. Fried, a partner and the chair of Shaw Pittman's Health Law Group and a member of The eHealthcare Association's Advisory Board. With regulation being a "static" process and the healthcare industry being the most regulated industry in the U.S., eHealthcare faces a "very unusual" realm of challenges. The conflicts run deeper when one takes into account the doubling of computing computing - computer technology every 18 months. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Fried, fraud and abuse laws are becoming more important as government monies are finding their way into eHealth eHealth (also written e-health) is a relatively recent term for healthcare practice which is supported by electronic processes and communication. The term is inconsistently used: some would argue it is interchangeable with health care informatics, while others use it in the , and eHealthcare deals, whether they are "virtual or real," must answer to these laws. In an opening day program titled "View From Capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress Capitol, seat of the U.S. government at Washington, D.C. It is the city's dominating monument, built on an elevated site that was chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre L'Enfant. Hill," Fried presented the example of PlanetRx, which was recently announced as the online source for the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . HIP, being a major provider of healthcare, is reimbursed by governmental monies. These funds will eventually reach PlanetRx, causing attention to fraud and abuse laws to increase, he said. Fried believes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. ) role in eHealth will also change. Currently, the FDA is remaining at a distance from eHealth regulation. As the distribution of medical software increases, however, so will the level of the FDA's involvement. Involvement from the eHealth industry in the direction of regulation policies has been limited, according to Fried. Fried concluded: "If you can't tell your story in a way that people say, 'Wow, I got value, society got value out of that,' then the regulators won't value you, and you will get what you deserve." Among many other achievements, Fried served as the chief coordinator of the 1992 Clinton/Gore Campaign's health care advisory group and was a member of the President's Transition Team for health policy. Fried has over 25 years of experience in the field of health policy. |
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