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– Dexcom, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Dexcom G7 15 Day Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System for individuals over the age of 18…
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Major Reorganization Disrupts Federal Healthcare Operations
The sweeping reorganization at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has eliminated entire departments with little explanation about how critical IT and digital infrastructure will be…
Mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will impact the medical device regulatory process, says Ben Wolf, partner in Alston & Bird’s…
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Background: Maintaining accurate medication records in clinical trials is essential to ensure data validity. Traditional methods such as direct observation, self-reporting, and pill counts have shown limitations that make them inaccurate or impractical. Video-based…
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Updated April 4 with comments from the VA.Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill, in an effort to protect service veterans’ federal jobs and contracts – and their healthcare, and the sensitive health data entrusted to…
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Healthcare Groups Challenge Proposed Regulations
Healthcare provider organizations are mounting significant opposition to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) proposed special registration framework for telehealth prescribing of controlled substances. Both the American Hospital Association (AHA) and…
The Veterans Administration is planning to roll out its Oracle electronic health record next year at medical facilities in five states, the agency confirmed on Monday. WHY IT MATTERS
VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office…
Writing to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about Department of Government Efficiency-assisted cuts releasing nearly 25% of the department’s employees – and his claim that the department’s overhaul consolidating…
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The Atomic Spectroscopy Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which provides definitive measurements integral to developing biomedical instrumentation that helps diagnose health conditions and advancing microchips, will close in a few…
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Legal Challenges to Federal Terminations
A Baltimore federal judge has directed the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate probationary federal employees who were terminated during President Trump’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce. The judge ruled…
