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HHS Announces Delayed HIT Compliance Deadlines
The Department of Health and Human Services has responded to concerns about compliance dates for healthcare IT with an interim final rule that relaxes those deadlines by nearly half a year....
HHS Orders FDA to Stand Down on LDTs
The Department of Health and Human Services issued an Aug. 19 rescission order to the FDA directing the agency to cease requiring any premarket reviews for lab-developed tests (LDTs), a change...
PTO Eyes Prioritized Patents to Combat Covid-19
The FDA and other agencies at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services have taken a number of measures to push back against the COVID-19 pandemic, but an agency at the Dept. of Commerce is...
FY 2021 Budget Proposal Hits NIH, Mostly Flat for FDA
The Trump administration’s budget proposal for fiscal 2021 in large part reflected the administration’s past proposals for various agencies at the Department of Health and Human Services. While...