Those hoping for meaningful drug pricing and prior authorization reform this holiday season received a lump of coal instead.
On Saturday, President Joe Biden signed a narrower spending bill that avoided a government shutdown but…
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Twenty-four members of Congress released their report on their work to develop a U.S. vision for responsible artificial intelligence innovation that accounts for appropriate guardrails to safeguard against current and emerging threats on Wednesday. With…
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The US Congress is delivering an end of year cliffhanger in the form of expansive legislation designed to fund the government so that there’s not a shutdown when current funding runs out on December…
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After months and months (and months) of increasingly vocal and impassioned lobbying efforts, its appears that Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have agreed – but not yet voted – on a stopgap year-end…
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Some members of Congress are asking the U.S. Health and Human Services to back away from a years-long effort to establish government-administered artificial intelligence assurance labs and create an AI assurance lab model in…
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications. The agencies…
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In a letter to Dr. Michelle Tarver, newly appointed director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, a division of the Food and Drug Administration, seven members of Congress have asked the agency…
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The American Telemedicine Association says it expects bipartisan support for telehealth and virtual care services to continue through the final days of the Biden Administration and the transition to the Trump Administration on January…
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Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Tom Leary, head of Government Relations at HIMSS, is tracking what the change in the administration could mean for interoperability and data sharing regulations that are already well…
With less than three months before the clock runs out on telemedicine electronic prescribing flexibilities, Reps. Doris Matsui, D-California, and Earl “Buddy” Carter, R-Georgia, are leading a bipartisan charge to urge the U.S. Drug…
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