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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

Bill of Health

2010/144740 and in the 966 patent. More broadly, BioNTech and Pfizer highlight Moderna’s surreptitious conduct of obtaining its mRNA patents without disclosing the government’s role in its funding and development. Indeed, as made public, the U.S. Moderna has since made over $30 billion in COVID-19 vaccine sales.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

Calling the Cops Health care advocates and reformers can show off plenty of war stories and wounds just from dealing with regulations and bureaucracies in health care. State governments are also roped in thanks to their Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Another bill, the EPCS 2.0

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How Virtual Primary Care Can Enrich Your Practice

HIT Consultant

They can see a greater number of patients, expand their regional reach, again, reduce wait times, attend to diverse clinical cases, and support preventive care with more frequent health checks. Clinicians can serve a wider reach of patients in rural areas and those with mobility issues, which is essential to improving public health outcomes.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Americans’ mentions of “government” as a top U.S. Americans pointed to government as the top problem in the U.S., “Average mentions of government have been on the rise since 2017,” Gallup noted in a growing polarized political climate in the U.S.

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Managing Healthcare Compliance in New Jersey

MedTrainer

New Jersey Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) oversees various departments and initiatives aimed at ensuring public health, such as disease control, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and health equity.