FCC To Hire Healthcare Director, Step Up Health Efforts

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held a public briefing this week with its mHealth Task Force, which formed just this past June to work with various other healthcare professionals and technologists to create a report full of “concrete” next steps that the FCC (and other agencies) can take to facilitate the adoption and acceleration of mHealth in the United States. The task force co-chairs are Julian Goldman, Medical Director of Biomedical Engineering, Partners Healthcare System; Robert Jarrin, Senior Director of Government Affairs, Qualcomm; and Douglas Trauner, CEO, TheCarrot.com.

The task force’s report, which it made public this week, offers about two dozen recommendations for the FCC, including the suggestion that the commission hire a permanent director of healthcare.