Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, was curtailed. Just days after a Texas federal judge’s ruling suspended the FDA’s approval of the drug, the U.S. May 17, 2023 : The Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments from the FDA, Danco, and the Plaintiffs. Had the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The ARC Innovation Center focuses on digital health technologies including precision medicine, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics, telemedicine and mobile health. The six companies from Sheba to secure investments in 2021 include: 1.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. Patients with mental health issues frequently must wait many months before getting seen by a licensed clinician who can prescribe psychotropic medication. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Taking vitals is not necessary.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 1, 2023

On February 14, 2023, the Utah Senate passed a bill that would repeal the State’s “Online Prescribing, Dispensing, and Facilitation Licensing Act” (“Online Prescribing Act”). Additional, but narrower and less common scenarios also qualify as the “practice of telemedicine” as defined in 21 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § Under 21 U.S.C. §

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, New York continues to maintain a professional licensing waiver that enables certain providers, licensed out of state, to render care within the state, for the duration of the declared state of emergency. Provider Licenses. What types of providers will render care via telehealth?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2022

They purchase the technical solutions such as algorithms and software licenses with no R&D or engineering capabilities on staff. RPM devices work as medical devices which are governed by the FDA and related departments. Principle 2: Evaluate the regulation competence of the suppliers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

The past two years have taught us that telemedicine is a highly scalable and successful way to deliver quality healthcare across the United States. The rise of telehealth (or telemedicine) during the pandemic has proven that virtual care can still be quality care. Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 29, 2022

The red-boxed items here identify the three largest chasms between experience vs. expectations: for information about providers (say, their ethnicity, gender, and licenses), and abilities to schedule an appointment online or a telehealth encounter. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data.

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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. Decentralization is enabled by the advancement of digital tools, telemedicine, and more mobile and local healthcare.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 22, 2023

911 dispatchers couldn’t understand them OKLAHOMA Children’s hospital in Oklahoma second in country with new therapy technology OU Health receives federal grant to support telemedicine for rural stroke patients OREGON Legacy Health sells medical office building for $60.5M health care spending hits $4.5

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

Johns highlight industry’s growth New UM cancer center offers lifesaving treatments ‘where discoveries are being made’ Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic CEO on how its new ASC will ‘check all the boxes’ The List: Here’s the largest rehabilitation facilities on the First Coast UpHealth completes $180 million sale Florida (..)

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass. Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

Moreover, the market for FDA-approved BP monitoring solutions that encourage routine measurements is well into the billions [ 22 , 23 ]. For some R&D efforts, the answer is quite simple – FDA approval has simply not been achievable due to the inability to pass critical performance standards.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

1 Mass General Brigham to build AI products with Australian health tech company Mass General Brigham hospital workers to receive average 21% raises Mass General Brigham to integrate triage AI across system Mass General Brigham sued over infection control lapse Nurse practitioner pleads guilty to $7.8M

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL 988 suicide hotline adds support for American Sign Language 3 Takeaways from Physician Compensation Trends Adventist Health completes merger with Montebello’s ailing Beverly Hospital AHA-supported bill to protect health care workers introduced in Senate AHA weighs in on CMS’ proposed ASC payment system AHA submits comments on CY 2024 (..)

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Hall Render

MARCH 8, 2024

DC Health moves to Anacostia with high hopes for community impact VIP health system for top US officials risked jeopardizing care for rank-and-file soldiers Health workers partner with churches to target kidney disease among DC’s Black residents DELAWARE ChristianaCare taps population health exec from Virtua ChristianaCare’s medical director takes (..)

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Hall Render

JULY 29, 2022

6 Major Trends Boosting the Telemedicine Market in Health Care. Portland device maker garners FDA breakthrough designation. Former Sanford doctor reprimanded for failing to disclose medical license renewal failure. Sanford CEO Bill Gassen sees future in telemedicine. 429 hospitals with 5 stars from CMS: 2022.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Vanessa Walker chief medical executive UCSF nurses link workplace violence to hiring freeze CA sues crisis pregnancy centers over abortion reversal claim Watsonville Community Hospital board approves 4-year, $640,000 annual contract for new CEO Stephen Gray COLORADO Boulder biotech startup nabs $8.7M Margaret’s CEO blames $7.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Remote patient monitoring technologies are akin to telemedicine technologies, since they automatically observe and report on patients, often with chronic illnesses, so caregivers can remotely keep tabs on patients. The platform also is designed for direct-to-patient telemedicine.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Grifols gets FDA approval for new facility in Clayton Invitae pledged $115M, 374-job investment in North Carolina. Million Individuals Affected by MOVEit Hack MARYLAND Adventist HealthCare, Montgomery College form partnership to address need for qualified nursing workforce Harford Memorial Hospital closing set for Feb.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 27, 2023

economy Cataldo Ambulance to expand operations, buys property on Worcester’s West Side Saint Vincent Hospital brings back volunteer program New England Regional Headache Center moves to Harvard St. with historic building purchase MICHIGAN Bronson raises capital campaign goal to $4.5M

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

Nevada, currently the wild west of birthing, is considering licensing midwifery NEW HAMPSHIRE Dartmouth Health opens new 5-story patient pavilion Report: Anthem has yet to process nearly $300 million in N.H. no longer calls for masks at all health care facilities to fight COVID-19, Gov.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Blue Shield of California is counting on it. million to UMass Memorial Health Care for COVID-19 costs Four Mass.

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Hall Render

MAY 19, 2023

ProMedica taps Ascension St. million to strengthen healthcare in WV Top Doctors Named Across W.Va. West Virginia Gov.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 19, 2023

The core premise of Bexis’ article is very simple: Once the FDA has said “yes” and approved a particular drug for a particular indication (“intended use”) for sale in the United States, federal preemption precludes any state from saying say “no” and trying to ban that same FDA-approved drug. at *2 (citation omitted).

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Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We have also been following a challenge in the Southern District of West Virginia to state law effectively banning and criminalizing the use of medications that the FDA has approved specifically for abortion. The FDCA “does [not] mention any other specific procedure, device, cosmetic, or medication it instructs the FDA to regulate.”

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