The European Commission has announced significant changes that may soon reshape MedTech regulation in Europe. The first step on this path is to gather proposals and views from manufacturers, clinicians, notified bodies, and patient organizations.
When people talk about digital health, they usually mean Zoomers and Millennials. A Rock Health (2024) survey shows: 68% of Millennials and 60% of Zoomers used virtual healthcare over the past year. Against this backdrop, it’s easy to believe that the healthtech market is aimed only at the young.
About 52,500 U.S. Medicare beneficiaries use remote patient monitoring (RPM) services — primarily for hypertension, diabetes, and musculoskeletal conditions. In Medicare Advantage plans, remote monitoring uptake has surged 14-fold from 2019 to 2022.
In 2022, 74.4% of U.S. physicians worked in practices that used telehealth, underscoring how routine virtual care has become. “No Access” – Medicare coverage at risk. Unless Congress acts, on Oct 1, 2025 Medicare’s pandemic-era flexibilities for non-behavioral telehealth from the home expire.