Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This change is yet another signal that the country is working to move past the pandemic, which falls in line with recent moves by the federal government to move the pandemic to a more controlled phase.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data. For healthcare modernization initiatives to succeed, CX must remain top of mind.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released an updated Mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (the “Mifepristone REMS Program”), which reverses the requirement that the drug be dispensed directly to a patient by certified prescriber in a clinic or a medical office (the “in-person dispensing requirement”).

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Natalia Mazina

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This month, the American Medical Association, American Pharmacist Association, and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists issued a joint release urging prescribers and pharmacists to stop ordering, prescribing, and dispensing ivermectin to prevent or treat Covid-19 outside of clinical trials.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2023

It is expected to be more than six times the size of the public health campaign for COVID-19. According to the congressional review of the FDA decision to approve Aduhelm (an early anti-amyloid antibody that received accelerated FDA approval, but not traditional approval), Biogen was expecting to spend $3.3

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Lastly, artificial intelligence (AI) gains significance and undergoes stronger scrutiny procedures in the US with more than a hundred new AI and machine learning (ML) based device approvals by the FDA. Enterprise Taxonomy: Operations Strategic Planning Digital Health Emerging Technologies Business Organizational Governance Technology.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Lastly, artificial intelligence (AI) gains significance and undergoes stronger scrutiny procedures in the US with more than a hundred new AI and machine learning (ML) based device approvals by the FDA. Enterprise Taxonomy: Operations Strategic Planning Digital Health Emerging Technologies Business Organizational Governance Technology.

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Healthcare Law Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Establishes a COVID-19 Task Force to examine the origins of COVID-19 and to examine the country’s response at the Federal, state and local levels. The pilot program, which will wind down at the end of 2027, first requires the FDA to issue guidance on implementation and to provide regular reporting on projects.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure public health by mandating vaccines. Tandon , a religious rights case unrelated to vaccines, arose in March 2020 during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, "healthcare already had a cyber target on its back," said Logan. Jarrett noted that this could be a good opportunity for the government to intervene. "FDA does not regulate telemedicine," she reminded co-panelists. "Cybersecurity is a patient safety issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What are some of your predictions for 2022 and beyond about the way telehealth will be used, especially as the COVID 19 pandemic continues?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Even so, 2 in 3 adults said they would likely get an app to track a medical condition that was approved by the FDA. adults in late September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic. FDA clearance makes a difference in peoples’ trust with health apps, with 2 in 3 U.S. 46% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"We’ve seen the undue burden and hardship these restrictions create during COVID-19, especially in communities hit hardest by the pandemic," said Skye Perryman, chief legal officer at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which was a coplaintiff in the case. " she said.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2023

Focusing on the macroeconomic environment, which remains impacted by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, there continues to be uncertainty about the strength of the global, Asia Pacific, UK and US economies. For a while, things were focused solely on COVID. Tracy Curley, CFO and interim CEO at iSpecimen. Jane Myles, V.P.

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Hall Render

JUNE 29, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released draft guidance (“Draft Guidance”) updating Good Clinical Practices (“GCPs”) recommendations for interventional clinical trials involving human subjects. Data Governance The Draft Guidance also strengthens the existing focus on data governance from both a sponsor and investigator perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But I believe that the ATA’s careful brick-laying, their forging of bonds with policy-makers and health care leaders, their patient education, made it easier for providers to adopt telemedicine quickly in the Spring of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic required it.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In a press release on the program, CTA President and CEO Gary Shapiro noted that, “The response to COVID-19 in the U.S. The group includes leading experts who are on the frontlines of dealing with COVID-19, and we hope to create a blueprint that will guide the effective use of technology to combat these scenarios in the future.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As the public health emergency of COVID is ending, state regulations are changing and fortunately telepsychiatry will still exist as part of a hybrid model. When telepsychiatry was first in higher demand due to COVID, it is estimated in February 2019, 4% of survey respondents indicated using telehealth services.

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SQA

JUNE 10, 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increase of 39.2% Backgrounder – Government of Canada Investments in Biomanufacturing, Development of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics, and Research, 18 May 2021. The Government of Canada’s number one priority is to protect the health of Canadians.

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 2, 2022

The onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) led to a surge in the use of telehealth by health care providers. Importantly, telehealth platforms should be prepared to modify their business models to reduce the risk of non-compliance with applicable laws or regulations, or in response to the rescission of COVID-19 waivers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The insights also can help healthcare organizations navigate vaccine distribution, as well as the ebbs and flows of patient volumes due to COVID-19 in the year ahead, according to the new report. ” The FDA is hinting that some of these changes could be here to stay. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

Are we putting enough safeguards and governance in place for AI-driven decision-making, particularly in areas of automated machine learning? Covid-19 has only made things more difficult as many cancer patients have delayed care. government has been incentivizing and streamlining the secure sharing of health data since 2016.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By James René Jolin and Susannah Baruch On July 13, 2023, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Opill (norgestrel) as the first daily oral contraceptive available for non-prescription use in the U.S. James René Jolin (JRJ): This recent move by the FDA is one without precedent. It was a long time coming.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

In Q1 2023, an acronym soup of federal agencies (FDA, CMS, DEA, FTC) announced preliminary steps and timelines for refining policies across digital health. Top of mind is the announcement to end the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which is slated to expire on May 11, 2023.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

It also impacts government payment rates. During the COVID-19 pandemic, temporary changes to the rating system were implemented to help support health plan performance because of the unique challenges around delivering care and collecting information. to 33% – a two-percentage point gain.    .  .

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Hall Render

MAY 13, 2022

FDA limits J&J COVID-19 vaccine due to rare blood clot risk. Travel nurses raced to help during Covid. Alabama hospital rationing medical supplies due to COVID disruptions in China. Alabama sees bump in COVID-19 cases, state health department monitoring. Covid-19 continues climbing in state.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 29, 2022

Hy-Vee grocery pharmacy announced test-to-treat services for consumers shown positive for COVID-19 with the therapy Paxlovid to be delivered across the store’s eight-state footprint. government would have saved $2.6 News & World Report named Mayo Clinic the #1 health system in the U.S. for the 7th consecutive year.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2023

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing to examine cybersecurity risks to the healthcare sector, how healthcare providers and the federal government are working to combat those threats, and determine what the federal government needs to do to improve defenses against cyberattacks on the healthcare sector.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

A novel coronavirus, now called SARS-CoV-19, was first detected in the Hubei province of China in early December 2019. There is now an FDA policy released on 29 Feb. An EUA issued before an emergency could permit use of an MCM during an emergency without the need for further authorization by FDA.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

Telemedicine Prescribing During the COVID-19 PHE During the COVID-19 PHE, among many other regulatory flexibilities, federal and state prescribing requirements were relaxed. This deadline came and went, also without meaningful action taken by DEA. Are the proposed record-keeping obligations reasonable and/or sufficient?

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Nikhil Chaudhry and Reshma Ramachandran Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had successfully included a reasonable pricing provision in a $326M investment contract with Regeneron for development of a next generation monoclonal antibody therapy for COVID-19. pharmaceutical market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

"Mail is regulated by the federal government," said lawyer David Coale to ABC affiliate KVUE. For instance, a June 2021 study from the Commonwealth Fund found that nearly two dozen states had altered telemedicine laws during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The status quo will remain the same in Texas." ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

The surge in genetic testing claims comes with a rise in fraud, waste and abuse across government and commercial payers. So are scenarios where individuals who seek COVID-19 testing are also persuaded to submit to a cheek swab for genetic tests related to Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, obesity, dementia and more.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Of interest is a reference to the FDA’s draft document “Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software,” which was recently published on 13 September 2022. PCPC looks forward to working with the FDA and key stakeholders to implement this important legislation.

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Health Care Law Brief

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This means that although ketamine is approved by the FDA for some medical uses, it is not specifically approved to treat depression. Such laws and regulations are largely governed at the state level, and there may be (i) considerable variations among state laws and (ii) frequent updates to such laws.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

drug policy using a whole-of-government (W-G) approach to assess where these misalignments are occurring among different agencies at the same level of government (referred to as horizontal W-G), and across different levels of government (referred to as vertical W-G).

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