The arrangement is analogous to the emergency use authorization that the drug received from the FDA earlier this month. Peer-reviewed data from the Phase III NIAID study of the drug were published Friday.
The deal will make the Phase III drug inclisiran - which Novartis acquired when it bought The Medicines Company in November - available to patients in the U.K. and include manufacturing and clinical development efforts.
Mayo Clinic has developed a new tool that could speed up the time it takes for digital health companies to validate their tech to hospitals.
The NHS pitches the service as being especially useful to elderly patients, blind patients and those who cannot access the internet through traditional means.
NHS said it hopes to make England the first country to eliminate HCV. The effort will involve finding people living with the virus and providing drugs procured from AbbVie, Gilead and Merck.
NICE recommends Kymriah to the Cancer Drugs Fund due to remaining questions about evidence to support it, but believes those questions will be resolved.
Remember the ransomware attack that started last Friday? It hasn't stopped spreading. And HHS is encouraging hospitals across the United States to proceed with caution.
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
An enormous ransomware attack has impacted organizations across the globe, including the National Health Service. U.K. hospitals resorted to diverting patients and using pen and paper for documentation.
Bruin Biometrics is connecting its wireless pressure ulcer detector, the SEM Scanner, to a digital registry for pressure ulcers known as PUNT (Pressure Ulcer Notification Tool).
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AliveCor Founder and CMO Dr. Dave Albert said that this opens the door to the NHS buying AliveCor devices for all 2 million atrial fibrillation patients in England "to save money and lives by preventing strokes."
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
"This will include information about people who are HIV-positive, for instance, as well as details of drug overdoses and abortions. The agreement also includes access to patient data from the last five years," according to New Scientist.
The plan includes hiring patient safety guru Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, to review IT infrastructure across the NHS.
Few industries still rely on fax technology the way healthcare does, and advocates for greater transparency in healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic can't wait for that to change.
The National Health Service in England has come out with a very cool infographic that helps explain risk to patients. The NHS Atlas of Risk puts conditions or situations into perspective – comparing the likelihood to die from murder to, say, a lack of sufficient fruits and vegetables in one’s diet. As far as risk analysis runs […]
In England, consultants uploaded the country's entire healthcare dataset – inpatient, outpatient and emergency room records - to Google servers outside Britian.