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The European Commission’s New Compulsory Licensing Proposal: A Step Forward?

Bill of Health

To solve this tension, the Commission recognizes that patent law already offers a solution: compulsory licensing. The Proposal A compulsory license allows third parties to use a patent without asking prior permission from the owner of said patent. The powers to grant such a license will be in the hands of the Commission.

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NIH licenses COVID-19 technologies to WHO-backed program

Healthcare Dive

The agreement, which covers three experimental vaccines as well as several key patents, makes products sold in 49 low-income countries royalty-free.

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Google Health inks first licensing agreement for mammography AI tech

Healthcare Dive

Under the agreement, medtech company iCAD will work to validate and incorporate Google’s mammography AI — which Google has been building and testing for several years — into its products for use in clinical practices.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

Legally speaking, patent pledges are comparable to the open source software licenses that underlie much of the world’s technology infrastructure and the Creative Commons licenses that make billions of online images, videos and other content freely available (both discussed here ). Tesla and Toyota) to software (e.g, see Jacobsen v.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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AI, licensing and remote prescribing among key issues facing telepsychiatry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There has been a lot of discussion about state licensure and the fact that our system of healthcare is divided up on a state-by-state basis where local medical boards hold the authority to grant licensure, when our nation would obviously benefit from a single universal license or a system of reciprocity.

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Preventing unlicensed individuals and subsequent fraudulent claims submission

Healthcare Dive

A closer look at the nuances of monitoring licenses and multi-state medical license compacts.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources.