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Advances in Early Diagnosis

Healthcare IT Today

Currently, when hospitals monitor a patient being treated with vancomycin, they take a blood test that requires several hours to return results. Although the treatment regimen calls for testing once or twice a day at very specific times, many hospitals test less often due to workflow and resource constraints. This can save lives.

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A Whole New World for Laboratory Developed Tests – FDA Proposes End to Its Longstanding Policy of Enforcement Discretion

Hall Render

On September 29, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced the issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) to expand the FDA’s regulatory scope over in vitro diagnostics products (“IVDs”) to specifically address Laboratory Developed Tests (“LDTs”).

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized the problem and issued multiple guidance documents over the years—as recently as this March —to ensure the cybersecurity of medical devices. Although none of the FDA recommendations are legally enforceable, device manufacturers no longer have a choice but to comply.

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How Policy Changes Can Fix Market Distortions in Healthcare and Improve the Country’s Debt

Healthcare IT Today

A major justification for President Biden’s tax hike proposal is to shore up the tenuous finances of Medicare whose trust fund is forecasted to be depleted by 2028. Historically, it is the most prolific driver of family bankruptcy, and now it is on its way to bankrupting our country collectively.

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Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future

HIT Consultant

For healthcare consumers, it provides a holistic and comprehensive medical history that is not specific to any healthcare organization or technology and that follows them wherever they go – at a hospital while on vacation, across town to a new provider, or at various specialists. It becomes a tangled web of data points.

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Health Provider News – March 11, 2022

Hall Render

50 best hospital, health systems supply chains in the US, per GHX. Cybersecurity companies offering US hospitals free protection. Cybersecurity companies offering US hospitals free protection. FDA final guidance presses industry to be ‘recall ready’ Final vaccine mandate deadlines still in play, despite removal vote.

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Health Care Is Front and Center as DeSantis and Newsom Go Mano a Mano

Kaiser Health News

These issues are expected to take center stage during the nationally televised 90-minute debate on Fox News, which could have major reverberations for the presidential contest next year and could even help shape the 2028 field of White House contenders. citizen or lawfully present in the country.