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Cybersecurity is Now a Patient Safety Issue, Suggests Sen. Warner In Congressional Report

HIPAA Journal

Warner suggests the only way to improve healthcare cybersecurity rapidly is through a collaborative effort involving the public and private sectors, with the federal government providing overall leadership. Improve Medical Device Cybersecurity. This could lower overall risks, which could help to reduce the cost of insurance.

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Health Provider News

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MASSACHUSETTS High demand is pushing hospitals past their limits, say Southeastern Mass. Texas North Runnels County Health District faces financial issues, at risk of closure Larry Ellison: Oracle moving world HQ to Nashville Patients in limbo amid Memorial Hermann transplant probe Texas Medicaid shake-up could force 1.8

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

He reported poor standardization of data coming out ot at test centers, despite the standards for interoperability delineated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical (HITECH) Act of 2009. The government could do that because they had a centralized patient data system and could reliably identify patients.

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PMA Preemption Decision Slides to the Bottom of the “Parallel Claim” Slippery Slope

Drug & Device Law

312 (2008), that essentially all product liability claims against manufacturers of FDA pre-market approved (“PMA”) medical devices were preempted. 662, 684-85, 686 (2009) (citations, including to Twombly , omitted). Back in 2008, the United States Supreme Court held, in Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. , Ashcroft v. Iqbal , 556 U.S.

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A Painful Preemption Decision

Drug & Device Law

555 (2009), a prescription drug preemption case, despite the relevant drug(s) being over-the-counter (“OTC”), and thus approved under an entirely different FDA regulatory process. The rulemaking process governing monographs was replaced with an administrative order process. 14, 2022), leaves us scratching our heads.

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Albrecht Progeny – Fosamax Femur Fracture Claims Preempted

Drug & Device Law

Even before the anti-osteoporosis drug Fosamax was FDA approved, its manufacturer was aware of a biologically plausible mechanism for that class of drug (“bisphosphonates”) to cause low-energy – later renamed “atypical” ? The manufacturer informed the FDA, but no evidence then established that risk as anything more than hypothetical.

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Dealing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on Standards Compliance Evidence

Drug & Device Law

That is significant because, unlike (now) every other state in the country, since 1987 Pennsylvania precedent prohibited defendants from introducing evidence of their compliance with government and/or industry standards (“standards compliance” or “compliance” evidence, for short) in strict liability design defect cases – generally.