President-elect Donald Trump recently appointed former Paypal executive David Sacks as the White House’s first-ever czar for AI and cryptocurrency. Ryan Tarzy — CEO of Avandra Imaging, a federated network for de-identified imaging data — thinks this appointment could help accelerate the pace of innovation in the healthcare industry.
More than 330 provider organizations signed letters this week urging the White House and Congress to extend a pandemic-era telehealth prescribing flexibility. Failure to extend this policy would cause millions of Americans to lose access to treatment, they argued.
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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to improve women's health research, among other things. Several women's health executives came out in support.
Women's health advocates overwhelmingly came out in support of the White House's $100 million investment into women's health research. However, some noted shortcomings in where the funding is going.
A new proposed rule by the Biden-Harris Administration would require health plans to improve their analyses of their mental health benefits and make clear that they cannot engage in practices that make it more difficult for members to access mental health support compared to physical health.
The White House launched a new initiative to address the country’s opioid crisis — a dashboard tracking non-fatal opioid overdoses. The new tool is meant to track overdose clusters to inform better medical responses and preparedness.
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Not all drugs will be subject to price negotiation under the revised legislation. But the agreement sets up a framework enabling Medicare to negotiate the prices of medicines that have been on the market for a long time, and also caps the monthly price of insulin, which has been a flashpoint of drug price debate.
Several organizations, both providers and payers, have pledged to help the White House achieve its goal of administering at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to 70% of Americans over the next month. These organizations are launching various initiatives to engage the unvaccinated, including call campaigns and financial incentives.
President Donald Trump has officially called the opioid epidemic a national emergency. The announcement comes just days after HHS Secretary Tom Price downplayed the need to do so.
Among the highlights of Wednesday's Cancer Moonshot Summit was news that IBM Watson Health will team with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to bring precision medicine to 10,000 veterans with cancer over the next two years.
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The U.S Defense Department said it would invest nearly $200 million in next-generation technologies and research to repair and replace cells and tissues that can dramatically increase the time organs can be stored and improve the quality of organs transplanted.
We're heading into the 2016 elections, after all, where we've got candidates on both sides of the aisle reviling the drug pricing of the pharmaceutical industry. The Precision Medicine Initiative could help convince the public that the biopharmaceutical industry isn't completely stuffed with bad guys.
Rob Califf, the freshly nominated candidate for FDA Commissioner, has deep expertise in large-scale clinical trial design and regulatory policy. What are his strengths?
The Internet was abuzz Wednesday evening after ESPN pro football reporter Adam Schefter tweeted a photo of a medical record supposedly showing that New York Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul had had a finger amputated.
Amy Gleason, one of nine "Champions of Change" for precision medicine, wants to tell President Obama that consumers are as important as geneticists in making the Precision Medicine Initiative successful.