In the news this week, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) recorded more enrollments than in any prior year, including 3.6 million enrollees who had not used the marketplace before. Meanwhile, a study by the...
This week’s policy roundup reviews the FDA Modernization Act signed at the end of last year, which allows for innovative pathways for pharmaceutical companies to test their drugs. And a new probe...
In this week’s policy roundup, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its detailed timeline for drug pricing negotiations that will begin next year. Meanwhile, the FDA granted...
Last week retail pharmacies were granted permission by the FDA to distribute critical abortion medication to patients with a prescription. Meanwhile, the federal government shared that it was...
Policy news this week includes updates on the Oracle Cerner Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) project and news about an emerging pro-Russian hacktivist group threatening the US healthcare...
In this week’s policy roundup, the annual CMS accounting report found that healthcare expenditures slowed compared to 2020 but still reached $4.3 trillion in 2021. And a CDC study looking at...
State health officials are publicly considering the benefits of another mask mandate as hospitals and health infrastructure struggle to bear the pressure of rising RSV, influenza, and COVID-19 cases....
According to CDC reporting, this year’s flu season will be the worst in recent memory as infection rates spike, hospitalizations rise, and vulnerable populations are walloped. Meanwhile, the...
A group of 10 state attorneys general wrote a letter to Apple’s Tim Cook asking the CEO to improve health data privacy in its app store in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s undoing. Meanwhile,...
The growing popularity of third-party health apps is justified: they allow patients to take charge of everything from chronic disease management to menstrual cycles.
“These apps hold a lot of...
Abortion opponents, led by The Alliance for Defending Freedom, which also worked to overturn Roe v. Wade, are now targeting the medications used for ending pregnancies. The lawsuit filed in Texas seeks...
Jails can provide opportunities to diagnose and treat individuals for HIV. However, supporting care coordination for formerly incarcerated individuals upon reentry into the community can be difficult...
Last week, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned organizations to watch for a new ransomware variant that emerged in August and has already affected one healthcare...
The FDA is being pressured to force a recall of popular dry shampoos from the market after it was found that many contain benzene, a carcinogenic chemical. Meanwhile, CMS released its physician fee...
The Department of Defense and FDA announced new grants that will be used to create treatments and therapies for several debilitating diseases. The grants, worth over $40 million, will address dementia...
Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is headed to Intravacc and Mount Sinai to help those organizations improve healthcare in the United States. Using nearly $15 million in grant money,...
US District Judge Rudolph Contreras has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to restore full payments to hospitals and reverse its cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program. HHS,...
Last week, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning all people convicted of federal marijuana possession and seeking to reclassify marijuana with the Department of Health and Human Services...
*This article has been updated to clarify the FDA's decision on Relyvrio*
This week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to struggle with its EHR implementation as the Oracle-Cerner...
Digital health vendor, Eko, received $2.7 million from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) to build its machine learning smart stethoscope device. The machine learning algorithm that will make the...
