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COVID-19 Booster Updates

American Medical Compliance

Food and Drug Administration is planning to develop updated versions of booster vaccines that are specifically targeted to protect against Omnicron and its variants. Furthermore, the FDA is encouraging COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to update their booster shots to protect against BA.4 Second COVID-19 Booster.

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COVID-19 Tests With Inaccurate Results

American Medical Compliance

Receiving one negative test result does n0t necessarily mean that someone doesn’t have COVID-19. According to the FDA, people conducting at home tests should perform multiple COVID-19 tests over the course of several days. However, a PCR COVID-19 test has a higher detection rate of 95%.

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Updated CMS Guidelines for COVID-19 Tests and Booster Shot

Medisys Compliance

On 4 th April 2022, CMS announced that more than 59 million Americans with Medicare Part B, including those enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, now have access to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved, authorized, or cleared over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at no cost.

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IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For example, the data analytics team designed an algorithm to sort and pull relevant data from the records of more than 100,000 patients who had been diagnosed with COVID-19, identifying those at highest risk of complications from the virus. "We decided to implement self-scheduling for the COVID-19 vaccine.

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3 Lessons Learned from Pandemic-Era Clinical Development Regulatory Practices

HIT Consultant

Ronan Brown, SVP and Head of Integrated Global Compliance, IQVIA. The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with greater flexibility around mandates on alternatives to traditional clinical information. About Ronan Brown.

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Preparing for the End of the Public Health Emergency

YouCompli

CMS Updates to beneficiary PHE waivers that matter to healthcare compliance Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC, contributes regularly to the YouCompli blog. In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 4 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

Backgrounder – Government of Canada Investments in Biomanufacturing, Development of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics, and Research, 18 May 2021. That’s why the government is implementing a multi-faceted procurement strategy to provide a COVID-19 vaccine to every Canadian who wants one by September.

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