STAT

APRIL 24, 2024

HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, is planning to expand the use of an artificial intelligence tool to document doctor-patient interactions in its emergency rooms.

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STAT

MAY 1, 2024

In study documents, Mount Sinai doctors said the biopsies result in “the same amount of tissue loss” and “in effect, the same level of risk” for patients as standard DBS, because they are removing tissue that would otherwise be cauterized.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

However, a STAT   review of documents detailing   the steps taken toward government approval found that regulators endorsed the vaccine, called Covaxin, despite discrepancies in the number of clinical trial participants.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

WASHINGTON — There’s a panel of 20 nutrition experts that has outsized influence on the American diet — and the food industry has worked hard to get friendly researchers into the group, new documents obtained by STAT show.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

From truckloads of torn documents to avian incursions in the production plant, Granules India’s recent manufacturing reprimand from the FDA is alarming no matter which way you look at it. Earlier this month, Granules was slapped with a Form 483 following an inspection of its Telangana facility in India that ran from Aug. 26 to Sept.

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STAT

JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft on Thursday said it will launch its artificial intelligence tool for automating clinical documentation within health records software made by Epic, a move to embed the technology in health systems nationwide.

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PhRMA

MARCH 29, 2023

This series – including surveys of 5,000 Americans conducted with Ipsos, a leading research company in the United States — documents a consistent trend in reports of insurer- and middlemen-imposed practices that can keep patients from the medicines and treatments that they need.

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STAT

MARCH 7, 2025

  UnitedHealth acquired full or partial ownership stakes in more than 100 surgery centers in 2024, according to a STAT review of UnitedHealth’s newest annual financial documents.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

MA governor orders Steward Health Care to disclose withheld financial documents, says it must exit state 'as soon as possible' dmuoio Tue, 02/20/2024 - 16:37

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Specifically, a “large number of torn pieces” of documents that should have been kept to verify manufacturing and testing practices were found in the trucks, as well as in a scrap bag at a site run by Granules in Telangana, India.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2024

WellSpan Health is taking the burden off its providers by deploying an AI-driven clinical documentation tool from Nuance. | DAX Copilot, from Microsoft’s speech recognition subsidiary Nuance Communications, integrates with Epic to draft clinical notes during visits.

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STAT

MAY 6, 2024

WASHINGTON – Two New York University professors collaborated directly with executives of the vaping company Juul without disclosing those relationships to academic journals or Congress, a STAT investigation reveals.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 22, 2024

A wave of employee layoffs that UPMC announced last month was just one part of a broader restructure and operations “transformation” initiative, for which the nonprofit system has tapped management | An internal presentation obtained by Fierce Healthcare outlined April's “tough, but necessary" layoffs as one part of a broader look at the (..)

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STAT

JULY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON – Top Food and Drug Administration officials met multiple times earlier this year to discuss the regulation of ultra-processed foods, according to internal agency calendars obtained by STAT.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 16, 2023

In the 3 cases documented by researchers, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAG) levels were reduced by more than 50% after Japan began its COVID-19 vaccination program.

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Vaccines Documentation 247

STAT

JANUARY 7, 2025

The advent of the first generic GLP-1 drugs could help Medicare negotiate a lower price for the highly sought after diabetes and obesity medication semaglutide , according to experts familiar with the price-negotiation program and STAT’s review of documents from the first round of negotiations.

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Documentation Insurance FDA 118

Drug Topics

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the results of a study showed 63% of those who died from HAV had at least 1 documented preexisting indication for vaccination.

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Vaccines Documentation 247

Drug Topics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By way of natural immunity, vaccination, and behavior change, the majority of the 30,861 documented cases and 54 deaths were confined to 2022, and the epidemic curve portrays a picture of success.

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STAT

JANUARY 29, 2024

LONDON — There was something odd about these Alzheimer’s cases. Part of it was the patients’ presentations: Some didn’t have the classic symptoms of the condition. But it was also that the patients were in their 40s and 50s, even their 30s, far younger than people who normally develop the disease.

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STAT

MAY 31, 2024

More than three years ago, the National Institutes of Health launched a $1 billion-plus initiative to find the root causes and potential treatments for long Covid , the chronic disease that has quickly changed the lives of millions of Americans.

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Drug Topics

MARCH 24, 2024

At this year’s American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, Mark Garofoli urged pharmacists to develop strong documentation practices and go beyond baseline federal regulations to care for patients with red flags.

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STAT

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it has some safety concerns about an experimental CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease, citing the methods used by its makers to evaluate the risk of inadvertently making unwanted changes to patients’ DNA.

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STAT

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The authors found references to skin tone, pigmentation, or race  in 4% of the documents submitted before the FDA made its suggestion to diversify skin tone testing in 2013.

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Documentation FDA 131

Pharmacy Times

JUNE 24, 2022

The impact of the pandemic on the mental health of health care workers, including pharmacists and pharmacy staff, has been well documented.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MAY 4, 2024

Lost documents prevented victims from finding out the truth, official inquiry told Disastrous failures that caused the contaminated blood scandal were denied by ministers for decades after officials destroyed, lost and blocked access to key documents, memos submitted to the official inquiry reveal. Continue reading.

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PhRMA

JANUARY 25, 2023

This report is the latest to document this progress. The report notes the continued decline in death rates since 1991, including a 1.5% decrease between 2019 and 2020 alone, increasingly reflects advances in prevention and treatment—including new medicines which have improved survival across a range of cancers.

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Documentation 279

BioPharm

MAY 3, 2024

A new draft guidance issued by FDA covers human- and animal-derived materials used in the manufacture of advanced therapy medicinal products.

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Documentation FDA 111

European Pharmaceutical Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The document identified significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) regulations for finished pharmaceuticals. Inadequate validation of test methods : KVK-Tech failed to establish and document the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility of test methods.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In the absence of a common treatment for long COVID, researchers from around the world documented the best currently available therapies.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 11, 2024

In a follow-up to the interim FTC report documenting the business practices of PBMs and the power they hold in the pharmaceutical industry, the Commission now seeks to sue the 3 largest PBMs in the country for driving up the price of insulin and other essential drugs.

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STAT

MARCH 20, 2024

Johnson & Johnson has accused a long-standing employee of taking thousands of confidential files about commercial strategies as he left for a similar job at Pfizer, according to lawsuit filed in a federal court in New Jersey.

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Documentation 122

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2024

Startup Abridge has notched it's largest partnership to date as Kaiser Permanente is making its generative AI tools for medical documentation available to more than 24,000 doctors across its system | Startup Abridge has notched it's largest partnership to date as Kaiser Permanente is making its generative AI tools for medical documentation (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 22, 2024

Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. | Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to c | Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, (..)

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Mayo Clinic Documentation 138

STAT

APRIL 11, 2024

Medicare for the first time has estimated that a new Alzheimer’s treatment could cost the program billions of dollars by next year — well beyond what Wall Street or even the drug’s manufacturer have projected — according to a document obtained by STAT.

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Documentation 143

STAT

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group used secret rules to restrict access to rehabilitation care requested by specific groups of seriously ill patients, including those who lived in nursing homes or suffered from cognitive impairment, according to internal documents obtained by STAT.

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Nursing Homes Documentation Insurance 145

Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

IVIG was found to cease development of new lesions and heal previously documented erosions without adverse events to the patient or fetus.

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