Impact of 5G and IoT on Health Care and Accessibility.


THE FOUNDATION OF CONNECTED HEALTH CARE IS 5G AND THE IOT


Consumer Technology Association
December, 2020


Executive Summary

Through connectivity and innovation, health care is becoming more effective, efficient and accessible than ever. 

As Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® President and CEO Gary Shapiro observed, “[T]echnology is improving the human condition, helping us live longer, healthier, more productive lives.[1] 

Although this was true before 2020, the incredible challenges presented by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic “offer insights into how innovation and technology are better equipping us to handle public health emergencies and contain the spread of diseases[2] and “has demonstrated the vital importance of ongoing and robust investment in tech development for digital health.”[3] 

From big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to telehealth innovations, blockchain, drones and teleworking solutions, technology has played a critical role in the civil society and government responses to the pandemic. 

These technologies were making a difference in our lives before the pandemic. 

Now that their value is even more apparent on a national scale, these technologies will be essential to our connected future. As North America’s largest technology trade association, CTA® is the tech sector. 

Our members are the world’s leading innovators — from startups to global brands — helping support more than 18 million American jobs. CTA owns and produces CES® — the most influential tech event in the world. Its member companies spearheading technological change across the economy. 

The association is a champion for telehealth and telemedicine innovation, recently collaborating with the American Telemedicine Association to build a major resource to connect people with telehealth technology. The website TechHealthDirectory. com is helping the health care industry during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing a growing list of digital health resources covering everything from remote monitoring to telemedicine. Convening more than 50 organizations, CTA also recently developed the first industry-led standard for AI in health care.[4]

Advancements in digital health address some of the most pressing global issues of our generation, including opioid dependence, mental illness and chronic disease.

-Gary Shapiro, CTA CEO


In addition, the CTA Foundation[5] brings technology — including health care technology — to those in need: seniors and people with disabilities. 

The Foundation understands the connectivity solutions for these demographics require more than just furnishing people with devices; the right solutions can give people freedom, independence, purpose and most importantly, vital connections. 

For example, with support from the CTA Foundation, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation in Pittsburgh created the Virtual Senior Academy, which brings together homebound seniors and can enhance health awareness among this population. 

Meals on Wheels America is piloting a virtual component on top of their in-person delivery services to keep seniors connected. 

And BridgingApps, a program of Easter Seals of Greater Houston and supported by the CTA Foundation, curates applications for people of all ages and abilities, including telehealth content.


Connected health will be one of the most transformative applications of the Internet of Things (IoT), making it a “must have” as opposed to a “nice to have.” 


Digital health will enable care to be delivered in new modalities and across broad geographies, leading to better health outcomes, increased equity and improved quality of life. 

Key beneficiaries of a robust connected health ecosystem include caregivers, parents, the homebound, the chronically ill and in pain, the medically underserved and seniors, among others. 

As Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai observed, telemedicine “provides direct access to health care providers in a way patients previously couldn’t have had.[6] 

Health IoT can shape more efficient housing arrangements for our aging population and make health care more accessible — and with better outcomes — for all

It will save enormous social, medical and transportation costs and spur economic growth.


5G — the next generation of wireless communications network — is an essential piece of the puzzle for the future of health care given the low-latency communications and large-scale device connections that 5G will enable. 

Health IoT will both foster and be improved by 5G in a virtuous cycle, making sensible national infrastructure policy, spectrum policy and device regulation critical. 

In addition, advancement in digital health will require permission-less innovation and flexible regulation that offers predictability for those building operations and infrastructure.


This white paper is a product of collaboration among CTA’s Wireless Division, Health & Fitness Technology Division, and the CTA Foundation. 

It explores unique use cases that show the immense potential of connectivity to enhance consumers’ lives and improve public health outcomes. It also offers discrete policy recommendations to bring that promise to fruition.


THE FOUNDATION OF CONNECTED HEALTH CARE IS 5G AND THE IOT

The connected future of health care depends on two main drivers of technology: 5G and health IoT, the platforms that enable the remote provision of health care services. 

5G and health IoT … are … the platforms that enable the remote provision of health care services.

These are symbiotic innovations, enabling a transformation of the health care industry that will use unprecedented speeds and volumes of data for a variety of life-improving and life-saving health care applications.


A. What Is 5G?

5G is the fifth and latest generation of wireless communications technology. 

Leveraging new methods to modulate radio waves and provide an air interface between base stations and devices, 5G allows for ultra-low-latency networks that are fast, reliable and can use a wide variety of spectrum bands. 

As CTA notes in the 5G U.S. Market Impact Study, “5G is much more than just a better version of 4G.”[7] Moreover, industry and government are focused on ensuring that 5G operates on the most secure networks ever deployed.[8]


As CTA has previously observed, the new functionality 5G will bring to wireless communications — including “extremely low latency, network slicing, support for highly dense IoT deployments, high reliability, enhanced security, dual LTE and 5G capability, vehicle communications, and broadcast mode,” — will enable a broad variety of “new business models, revenue streams, and user experiences.”[9] 

5G will completely transform the wireless experience as consumers know it and 5G networks will prompt substantial investment across myriad industries, including — and perhaps most significantly — the health care sector.


B. What Is Health IoT?

The IoT not only includes devices but also networks, services and data that function as an extension of traditional computing and enable the sharing of data from a device to other devices and networks. 

Health IoT, sometimes referred to as “digital health,” is also broad but describes “platforms that create actionable patient data to aid in the treatment or prevention of diseases outside of the traditional care setting.”[10]


Health IoT includes “clinical wearables and remote sensors as well as many other devices that monitor and electronically transmit vital signs, physical activity, personal safety, and medication adherence.[11] 

By using these tools with more traditional connectivity technologies — such as videoconferencing, voice services and text-based chat capabilities — caregivers can remotely perform health care functions including diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and patient education and advice. 

This drastically reduces the need for in-person contact. As the FCC has explained, health IoT can include “remote patient monitoring (e.g., use of patient reporting outcome platforms, glucometers, pulse oximeters, sphygmomanometers, chest straps, wearables, passive sensors, or other devices to consistently monitor patient vitals), patient health education, store and forward services (e.g., asynchronous transfer of patient images and data for interpretation by a physician), and synchronous video consultations and visits,” among others.[12]


C. How Will 5G Advance Digital Health?

The transformative potential of 5G networks will enable significant advancement in health care technology by making possible a variety of applications. 

Low latency, ultra-high reliability and the ability to support myriad devices and sensors with meaningful data points are three key characteristics of 5G networks that will impact health care.[13] 

Applications will not be limited to providing remote care to patients in their homes. For instance, 5G will allow real- time interventions by first responders in the field through connected equipment and enable remotely conducted surgery.


These advances also promise economic growth. 

The opportunities presented by 5G will spur investment in connected health technologies. This, in turn, will encourage additional investment in 5G deployment to ensure these technologies can be widely used. 

This virtuous cycle of innovation will generate benefits in health care and wireless technology. 

In addition, the enhanced security of 5G networks will help safeguard the integrity of information.[14] As CTA notes in the 5G Impact on Industries study, “From simple tasks such as relaying data about a person’s physical activity to activating medicine inside the body remotely, the [5G] network will play a key role in making consumers comfortable with advances in medicine and new techniques to provide care.”[15]


WHAT BENEFITS WILL HEALTH IOT PROVIDE?

Connected health will help people live better lives, improve the operational side of health care and impact clinical applications. 

As the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has recognized, health technology “has the potential to lower costs, improve quality, reduce medical errors, and promote continuous care.”[16] 

Health IoT will transform the way we experience health care, fostering benefits in quality of life, public health, equity and economic growth.[17]


Increased Access to Providers. An obvious benefit of an advanced digital health ecosystem is increased access to providers, as health IoT will “open up the available universe of health care providers well beyond the patient’s geographic location.”[18]


More broadly, health IoT will provide better access to a wider range of specialists for the average patient and enhanced access to providers for people living in remote, rural or underserved areas as well as those who have difficulty traveling or taking time off work.[19] 

This unprecedented level of access to providers means not only that patients will be able to stay home for doctors’ appointments, but in many cases live at home rather than moving into managed care facilities. 

This is important for seniors looking to “age in place,” and will reduce strain on long-term care institutions that cannot meet demand. 

CTA’s “research indicates that health and wellness applications are already serving the twin goals of reducing unsustainable demand on institutions and keeping seniors in their homes longer.”[20] 

Indeed, as CTA recently observed, the market for wearables will surpass $10 billion in 2020, thus “[enabling] an aging U.S. population to look to technology to aid in managing chronic conditions and maintaining healthy lifestyles.”[21]


The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the role technology and connectivity will play in giving consumers access to provider care

In a time when staying at home literally saves lives, CTA and its member companies have helped address the pandemic by providing resources for virtual care and home health and wellness.[22] 

These telehealth resources have given consumers better health tools and access to real-time communication with clinicians, resulting in fewer in-person visits, lower risk of transmission and relief for overcrowded health care facilities.[23] 

Because of CTA members’ innovations, our nation is better equipped to handle public health emergencies and contain the spread of future diseases.[24]


Enhanced Patient Comfort and Emotional Health. Receiving a range of health services in-home will improve patients’ comfort and emotional health by reducing the need for long hospital stays or moving into assisted living facilities. 

CTA’s research shows virtually all seniors want to live independently and stay home as they age, and they are optimistic about their ability to adapt to technologies that can make that possible.[25] 

Caregivers and seniors agree technology will help them do just that — receive quality care in the comfort of their homes. 

Seniors and other vulnerable populations struggle with loneliness. For instance, AARP found that one in three U.S. adults age 45-and-older is lonely. 

Connectivity is vital to combating social isolation, as the shelter-in-place orders that affected millions of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic made clear.


Improved Health Outcomes. Increased access to providers and enhanced comfort and emotional health will improve health outcomes. Connected health will lead to better health outcomes in other ways. 

Health IoT will improve timeliness of care. In emergencies, patients can be diagnosed and treated more quickly, which could save lives. 

The Veteran’s Health Administration has shown the positive impacts connected health technologies can have on patient outcomes. 

Its remote patient monitoring program involving more than 43,000 veterans with conditions including hypertension, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression and PTSD resulted in a 

  • 25% reduction in days of inpatient care and a 
  • 19% reduction in hospital admissions over a three-year period.[26]

In addition, the continuous and responsible collection of massive amounts of health-related data will improve outcomes by reducing medical errors in existing cases and informing care for future patients. 

Predictive analytics and machine learning using health IoT data “will not only advance the state of medicine and health outcomes, but our understanding of the human condition itself.”[27] 

As CTA President and CEO Gary Shapiro said, “[C]loud computing and big data will allow us to analyze millions of patient medical records to uncover which diets and treatment regimens work best, depending on patients’ maladies, genetics, demographics, and physical activity.”[28]


Significant Cost Savings. The opportunities health IoT provides will provide significant cost savings on an individual and system-wide level. 

People can avoid the costs of traveling to health care facilities, lost wages from lengthy or distant health care visits, and — perhaps most significantly — housing costs borne by seniors and the and disabled, who may be able to remain at home longer rather than transitioning to assisted living facilities.[29] 

Health IoT will reduce the need for individuals to live close to health care facilities, creating more freedom in choosing where to call home.


Advances in Health IoT will similarly reduce burdens on caregivers. 
With respect to aging populations, CTA’s research reveals “caregivers are likely to be especially interested in technologies focused on safe living for seniors” in areas like taking medication or turning off the stove.[30] 

“[C]aregivers … want [seniors] to be able to stay in their homes (88%) and they would embrace technology that helps them do that (91%).”[31] 


Finally, the cost savings of connected health technology will extend to the health care system at large. 

Telehealth technologies are expected to create significant savings for chronic disease management, which accounts for over 85% of direct health care spending in the country. 

As the FCC has observed, “[Analysts] … estimate that widespread use of remote patient technology and virtual doctor visits could save the American health care system $305 billion annually.”[32]


Numerous Societal Benefits. The opportunities presented by the connected health ecosystem, together with knock-on effects, will foster considerable societal benefits, including:

  • Better quality of life and public health. By enabling people to manage conditions at home, engendering better health outcomes, and limiting spread of disease — something that is acutely felt in light of the COVID-19 pandemic — health IoT advancement promises to improve average quality of life and public health in general.
  • Increased equity. By equalizing access to providers and minimizing costs of services, health IoT will help to close gaps in care, particularly for at-risk, vulnerable patients.[33]
  • Economic benefits. Health IoT will spur economic growth by opening up a new market for innovative health care services, improving the economics of the nation’s health care system by reducing unnecessary costs and freeing up resources to be spent on other health care challenges, and helping to ensure a healthier workforce.

WHO BENEFITS?

Of course, the rising tide of health care advancement raises all ships, improving the lives of people such as patients, employees, community members, and consumers and producers in a national economy. However, a wide range of groups and individuals stand to benefit especially from innovation in the digital health space. These stakeholders and beneficiaries include:

  • Patients in disadvantaged or underserved groups including the elderly, people with disabilities, and those in rural areas or health care “deserts.”
  • People who need flexibility in how health care services are provided, such as parents, caregivers and community builders.
  • Entrepreneurs and market players that can bring innovative technologies to market.
  • Nonprofits and others that are building health delivery systems of the future.

HEALTH IOT USE CASES

CTA’s membership includes thousands of innovators in the connected care space. The following examples illustrate the significant work CTA members have undertaken to address problems in the health care industry and among disadvantaged groups using advanced connectivity solutions. These efforts demonstrate the significant potential of health IoT and realizing its benefits today.


A. Doctor on Demand illustrates the promise of IoT and connectivity for health care.

The Problem: The status quo in the health care market is characterized by shortages in primary care doctors and massive demand for chronic care, behavioral health care and pain management. In health care “deserts” such as rural, remote and tribal areas, individuals lack access to providers. Seeing a doctor is expensive and inconvenient for many, particularly those with limited mobility.

The Solution: Innovation in patient care can be catalyzed by rethinking delivery and moving away from traditional in-person paradigms. As the FCC has recognized, “[advances] in telehealth are transforming health care from a service delivered solely through traditional brick and mortar health care facilities to connected care options delivered via a broadband Internet access connection directly to the patient’s home or mobile location.”[34]

Doctor on Demand is a prime example — it connects patients with a variety of doctors over video chat, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Using the Doctor on Demand platform, health care providers “can see patients at any time of day over their smartphones, and send prescriptions to nearby pharmacies.”[35] The platform provides urgent care, behavioral health, preventive health, and chronic care treatments nationwide, primarily through video streaming services. By using Doctor on Demand, “[patients] can get personalized care that addresses their unique medical history” while remaining in the comfort of their homes.[36]


B. Samsung and Kaiser Permanente leverage consumer wearables to save lives with virtual cardiac rehab.

The Problem: Every year, about 735,000 Americans have a heart attack. Cardiac rehabilitation — a program designed to improve cardiovascular health for individuals who have experienced a heart attack, heart failure, angioplasty or heart surgery — is well studied and proven to have positive outcomes like reduced secondary events and rehospitalizations, but such programs raise hurdles for patients: time commitments, expense, difficulty of adopting behavioral changes.[37]

The Solution: Samsung partnered with Kaiser Permanente to develop a solution that would make cardiac rehab fit seamlessly into patients’ lives while improving clinical outcomes. Together, they created a technology-enabled, evidence-based remote cardiac rehab program that consists of patient-facing mobile applications linked to a wearable.[38] Patients download the program mobile app and are provided with a wearable. The wearable allows patients to select a preferred exercise regime, self-assess perceived exertion and self-assess symptoms. All data input through the wearable is transmitted to a compatible clinician dashboard, who then sets exercise goals for the patient and monitors adherence, compliance and overall progress. Patients also have weekly virtual visits with case managers.[39] The solution pairs with Samsung’s HeartWise app to track each patient’s daily heart rate and activities. HeartWise uses off-the-shelf consumer-ready equipment, reducing the cost for consumers. The program has seen considerable success, improving enrollment rates, patient adherence and completion rates.

The program has reduced hospital readmission rates post-completion.[40] HeartWise soon may be used in the Virginia health system to leverage cost savings and improved patient outcomes.


C. BioIntelliSense harnesses data to transform remote patient monitoring.

The Problem: Hospital stays are expensive and stressful and can be lengthy for patients that require constant monitoring. More broadly, in some cases, subtle physical changes may signal a patient’s deterioration, but symptoms may not present until it is too late.

The Solution: Technological breakthroughs can bring medical-grade care into the home. BioIntelliSense’s Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform captures minute-to-minute vital signs, physiological biometrics and symptomatic events through a wearable sticker sensor. Through the platform’s advanced analytics, clinicians can access high-resolution patient trending and reporting to enable medical grade care in the home.[41] BioIntelliSense continues to innovate, announcing the addition of multi-parameter biometric monitoring to the DaaS platform. The breakthrough will enable remote data capture and reporting of a patient’s symptomatic coughing, sneezing, and vomiting frequency.[42]

BioIntelliSense’s wearable leverages vital sign data and physiological biosignals to reveal actionable trends. Specifically, the wearable can capture data on skin temperature, heart rate at rest, respiratory rate at rest, gait analysis, body position, steps and activity level, fall detection and sleep.[43] By collecting and using this data, BioIntelliSense’s solution may reduce hospitalizations, emergency department visits and shorten hospital stays, creating tremendous cost savings.

BioIntelliSense also recently unveiled its new BioHub, a preconfigured connectivity gateway built with a Qualcomm 5G chipset that can autodetect the wearable sticker sensor. This secure gateway enables near real-time encrypted data transmission of minute-level vital signs to the cloud for algorithmic analysis and reporting.[44] The BioHub eliminates the complexity of Bluetooth pairing for continuous health monitoring in the home and clinical settings. It will support remote patient monitoring and enable more complex care.


D. Aira uses technology to give people who are blind or have low vision equal access to the visual world.

The Problem: Individuals with disabilities can face unique challenges. Travel and independence can be difficult for individuals who are blind or have low vision. Navigating public transportation, for example, can be complex, even for people will full vision. Accessible assistive technology has the potential to transform everyday life and conquer barriers for the accessibility community. Connectivity can improve quality of life not only by increasing access to remote health care and other connected health services, but also by providing technological solutions that minimize the challenges presented by the disabilities themselves.

The Solution: Aira is a service — available through a smartphone app — that connects people who are blind and with low-vision to highly trained agents, allowing them to remotely assist people with virtually any task, every day.[45] [46] At CES® 2018, Aira service made travel easier throughout large exhibit areas, allowing blind and low vision attendees to further experience interactive show floor.[47]

Aira runs on CTA’s groundbreaking new standard for designing inclusive, audio-based indoor navigation systems that will help provide real-time wayfinding and location support for people who are blind or low vision.[48] 5G technology will make systems like Aira even more accurate and flexible.


E. Need for predictable and bold infrastructure deployment policy to enable advances in 5G.

Given the importance of 5G to connected health advancement, policymakers must facilitate infrastructure deployment and make more spectrum available for wireless use.

Infrastructure. Rapid, streamlined infrastructure deployment is essential to the success of 5G and health IoT.[49] Common-sense siting policies — general rules about the placement for cell towers — will protect consumers, governments, and innovation.[50] The FCC has undertaken significant work to clarify the aspects of the Communications Act that govern wireless siting and to facilitate infrastructure deployment. Most recently, the FCC clarified key aspects of implementing regulations and legal interpretations of a statute that removes local zoning authority over certain changes to existing wireless facilities, enhancing the ability of providers to undertake facility upgrades that will help to make 5G a reality. More should be done to build on these efforts and ensure that the bounds of state and local authority are clear and properly balance the appropriate interests.

Spectrum. Spectrum fuels 5G networks and health IoT. CTA applauds the important steps that the FCC has taken to facilitate innovative use of previously underutilized spectrum for mobile broadband and other wireless services, and its effort to continue developing spectrum for commercial use. But there is more work to be done. Mid-band spectrum remains a critical, much-needed resource for 5G. More broadly, CTA looks forward to seeing new, innovative solutions from the federal government to free up access to spectrum.[51]


F. Light touch and flexible device regulation.

Because the IoT ecosystem in general, and health IoT in particular, will consist of countless consumer devices performing all types of data collection and transmission, common sense device regulation is paramount. The FCC has been on the right path on streamlining authorizations that enable transformative new health devices to make it to market safely and efficiently. The agency should continue working to modernize this regulatory regime, as CTA has encouraged, for example, to expand marketing opportunities for new technologies.[52]

Accessibility is also essential for IoT devices, especially given that many IoT applications are poised to significantly and particularly benefit consumers with disabilities. Rational, flexible accessibility requirements will ensure that companies can produce IoT solutions that empower all consumers. The FCC’s accessibility regime under the Communications Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA) already supports health and wellness products by requiring accessibility for products that use advanced communications services including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), electronic messaging and videoconferencing. This regime has increased the accessibility of many, if not most, consumer technology products used for health and wellness.[53]

At the same time, policymakers must ensure that regulatory requirements imposed on devices do not create unnecessary barriers to entry for companies. To that end, IoT device policy should avoid prescriptive or rigid security or operational requirements as a condition of market entry and should use industry standards. Successful industry standards already exist. CTA recently worked with peers to develop a detailed baseline for IoT security,[54] and has developed a new standard for AI in health care, which provides a framework for understanding AI technologies and common terminology so that consumers, tech companies and care providers can better communicate, develop and use AI-based health care technologies.[55] Finally, policymakers should examine existing regulatory frameworks that may impact IoT devices and eliminate or modernize outdated requirements that prevent the deployment of innovative telehealth technologies.


G. Sensible regulation of data that will be generated and used by health IoT to ensure massive innovations and achievements. 

IoT will generate a massive amount of data to inform and develop various applications. Health IoT may raise more privacy concerns for policymakers than other IoT solutions because the data collected includes personal information about people’s medical records, prescriptions, demographics, lifestyles and everyday movements and activities. Innovators and policymakers can meet this challenge. Health data has long been heavily regulated, and more flexible approaches are emerging to foster innovation in the pandemic.[56] But foundationally, consumers and innovators need a predictable national privacy regime. Federal privacy legislation is critical and avoiding fragmented state regulation of health connectivity and devices will be key to enabling economies of scale.

Industry-wide, consensus-driven self-regulation address privacy and security. CTA and its members take the need for consumer trust seriously. CTA recently updated its Guiding Principles for the Privacy of Personal Health and Wellness Information[57] — a first-of-its-kind industry best practices document that covers the collection, use and sharing of data generated from personal health and wellness devices, apps, websites and other digital tools.[58] Public-private efforts provide a clear example of success across industries and government agencies.[59]


H. Sensible reimbursement and funding policies to ensure that providers and insurers can take advantage of health IoT.

Finally, policymakers should facilitate health IoT adoption with sensible government reimbursement and funding. For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) traditionally was only able to pay for telehealth “when the person receiving the service is in a designated rural area and when they leave their home and go to a clinic, hospital, or certain other types of medical facilities for the service.”[60] In 2019, Medicare started making payment for virtual check-ins, and Medicare Part B pays clinicians for e-visits. Recently, CMS responded to the pandemic by broadening “access to Medicare telehealth services so that beneficiaries can receive a wider range of services from their doctors without having to travel to a health care facility.”[61] The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act further facilitated opportunities for telehealth adoption during the emergency period. It included increasing the range of facilities that can provide Medicare-covered telehealth services, enabling consultations necessary for certain Medicare benefits to take place via telehealth rather than face to face, and giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services broad authority to waive statutory requirements governing Medicare coverage for telehealth.[62] Lessons learned from the use of telehealth during the pandemic should inform future, lasting policies and should cause policymakers to reconsider payment for telehealth.


For its part, the FCC has taken significant steps to make funding available, including most recently by rapidly adopting a $200 million COVID-19 telehealth program following the CARES Act and launching the Connected Care Pilot Program to fund connected health initiatives through the agency’s Universal Service Fund.[63] CTA applauds reimbursement policies that promote health IoT and improves gaps in access to care using connectivity.[64]


FINAL THOUGHTS

  • Health IoT built on a 5G future promises remarkable benefits to consumers and innovation in the treatment of disease. 
  • CTA and its members are racing toward a more connected future that works for all Americans; they will continue to promote sensible policies and industry best practices to foster innovation that will improve and save lives. 
  • The policy recommendations in this white paper are contributions to a much-needed discussion about how to promote and sustain American innovation in the health sector.

References

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Gary Shapiro, CEO CTA;
Ajit Pai, As Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman;

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