Government & Policy
The virtual care organization said the Drug Enforcement Administration's draft framework would impose on clinical decision-making. It also flagged compliance impracticalities around provider exclusions and arbitrary requirements.
The terminations include all first-year officers in the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service investigating outbreaks and emerging health dangers. Other layoffs at CMS and FDA are also reported.
Public Service Association has asked the Privacy Commissioner and Employment Relations Authority to keep Te Whatu Ora from dismissing roles in data and digital.
The bill would allow AI to be classified as a "practitioner licensed by law" to administer FDA-approved drugs.
Planning and funding director Dr Dale Bramley will be interim chief executive.
Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs.
Also, a free virtual women's health clinic is being set up in Victoria.
"Health IT has always been a nonpartisan area for policymakers, so I expect that will largely remain the case," says longtime policy expert Leigh Burchell.
It recently launched the Indian Genomic Dataset, which currently has 10,000 sequenced genomes from the local population.
HHS nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says show me the data; senators say it's already there.