Reimbursement A Top Goal For New Digital Health Lobbying Center
Executive Summary
As digital health becomes more ubiquitous in the medical device space, industry advocacy group AdvaMed has launched a Center for Digital Health to aggregate its resources and coordinate efforts to lobby the government on behalf of digital-health companies.
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