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Compounder prohibited from making drugs intended as sterile

A federal court has ordered a Texas-based company to stop producing compounded drug products intended to be sterile until the company complies with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and other requirements.

Insights from SXSW: The role of technology in addressing social determinants and driving the next-generation of care

Pictured, from left to right: Manik Bhat, CEO of Healthify, Inc.; Carmen Llanes Pulido, executive director at Go Austin/Vamos Austin; Dwayne Proctor, senior adviser to the president and directo

CMS outlines planned changes to competitive bidding program for 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week announced planned changes to the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Competitive Bidding Program for 2021.

Study: Social risk factors linked to hospital readmissions, penalties

Adjusting for social risk factors such as poverty, disability and housing instability in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program could level the playing field for hospitals that serve the most vulnerable patients.

VA, Sanford Health announce precision medicine partnership

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health will provide free pharmacogenetic testing to veterans through a partnership to improve care and lower costs related to adverse reactions to medications.

Building Coordinated Networks of Care in the Digital Age: How Contemporary Market Forces are Changing Health Care

Understanding current trends and their implications can provide important context for what is happening in today’s health care environment.

Measuring the Opportunity and Impact of AI

Amazon Web Services is working with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to test ways that artificial intelligence can simplify medical care. Bloomberg reports that Amazon recently gave the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital a grant of up to $2 million to experiment with machine learning and AI. One of its first projects will explore how to make daily tasks like patient scheduling more cost-effective.

Leveraging Virtual Care to Increase Access and Triage Patients

Virtual care has the potential to increase access, reduce costs and help patients make better decisions about their care as symptoms arise. Fulfilling these lofty goals may be a work in progress, but evolving telemedicine platforms are attempting to solve some of health care’s perplexing problems — how to increase access to primary care while delivering it in the most-appropriate cost setting.

Normal power system functional-performance testing

Four preventive maintenance procedures to ensure a well-functioning system