Wednesday, March 16, 2022: D.C. News

A Senate committee voted 20-2 to advance a bipartisan pandemic preparedness bill that seeks to apply COVID-19 lessons to future health threats. The bill includes measures to strengthen the medical supply chain, bolster disease surveillance, and require that the Senate...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: Health IT

Google Health and EHR vendor Meditech plan to integrate Care Studio, an EHR search tool that Google first piloted with Ascension, into Meditech’s Expanse EHR. The goal of the partnership is to pull and organize information from different systems to give doctors...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: Health IT

A new analysis from KFF and Epic Research revealed that telehealth continues to account for more than a third of outpatient mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) visits. The analysis examined Epic’s HIPAA-defined limited data set of more than 126 million...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: Life Sciences

Pfizer and BioNTech have applied for emergency use authorization of a fourth booster dose of their Covid-19 vaccine. The companies said the additional dose is for adults 65 and older who have gotten a booster dose of any of the authorized or approved vaccines....

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: Life Sciences

The United States, European Union, South Africa, and India have reached a deal regarding intellectual property rights for COVID-19 shots. The deal would allow developing countries with low vaccine exports to use patented vaccine formulas without the owner’s...