Wednesday, June 15, 2022: Health IT

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced it intends to release a $50 million funding opportunity for studies showing how telemedicine can improve the health of patients with chronic diseases. The institute is specifically interested in...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022: Health IT

TheDigital Medicine Society (DiMe) – a digital health collaborative that includes Google, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science – announced plans to launch an interactive, open-access regulatory support tool for...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022: Life Sciences

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted 22-0 to recommend the agency expand the authorization of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to children and teenagers ages 6 to 17. An FDA analysis estimated that the vaccine was 93 percent effective for teens and 77...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022: M&A

Saint Peter’s Healthcare System and RWJBarnabas Health have terminated plans to merge. The two New Jersey health systems signed a definitive agreement to merge in September 2020. They agreed to call off the deal after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022: Payers

A new Gallup poll indicates that Americans aged 50-64 to have been skipping medications and cutting back on daily essentials to cover their medical needs. Eighteen percent, or approximately 11 million of older Americans, said they or a family member skipped a pill,...