Health Division

Key Initiatives

• Provide CTA members with educational and networking opportunities in the health and fitness technology space.
• Conduct market research around health and fitness technology devices, products and services.
• Educate industry stakeholders about health and fitness technology products and services.
• Ensure that health and fitness technology devices, services and apps can thrive in a sound regulatory environment that balances innovation with safety and privacy.
• Support standards initiatives to create performance benchmarks or other standards to advance consumer acceptance of the wearables industry.

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Advocacy Projects

The Health Division worked with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other relevant government agencies and law makers to advance technology enabled value-based health care and promote a sound regulatory and legislative environment that balances innovation with safety and privacy.

• Published Guiding Privacy Principles for the Privacy of Personal Health Data
• Established the FDA Working Group to work directly with the agency on digital health policies
• Partnered with the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and OSTP to publish a TechHealth Directory providing listing of telehealth resources for providers and consumers
• Created Public Health Tech Initiative (PHTI)
  
• Launched Health Equity and Access Leadership (HEAL) Coalition in partnership with the Connected Health Initiative (CHI)
• Published Guiding Principles on Virtual Care