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FDA Updates
08/07/2024

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Nerve Monitoring System Correction: Medtron...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended the updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines and the updated 2024-2025 flu v...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Assisted Living,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Home Health,
  • Hospitals,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility,
  • Pharmacy,
  • Rural Health Clinics

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced a settlement with the New Jersey Imaging Netw...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services
Relevant To:
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Ambulatory Care

The practice of reprocessing devices that are intended or labeled for single-use (SUDs) began in hospitals in the late 1970s. Since that time, the pra...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published fact sheets for three of the CMS FY 2025 payment rules: Fiscal Year 2025...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Long Term Care,
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility,
  • Behavioral Health - Inpatient

On July 19, 2024, Change Healthcare filed a breach report with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning a ransomware attack that resulted in a...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services,
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently used new data to analyze the U.S. burden of seven antimicrobial-resistant pathogens...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services,
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations
FDA Updates
07/26/2024

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: UPDATE: Evaluating Plastic Syringes Made in...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced a strategic reorganization within the department that will streamline and bolster techn...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Health Advisory to inform healthcare providers, laboratory professionals, healthcare...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Clinical Lab,
  • Rural Health Clinics

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) National Standards Group (NSG), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health & Human S...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations
FDA Updates
07/23/2024

The following is a listing of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Acetaminophen Injection, 1000 mg/100 mL Bags by Hi...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The non-malicious global technology outage that occurred last Friday continues to impact hospitals and health systems across the country.  CrowdS...

Sources:
  • Miscellaneous
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

According to several major media outlets, a widespread technology outage has impacted multiple business sectors across the country, including airlines...

Sources:
  • Miscellaneous
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

On July 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed Medicare payment rates for hospital outpatient and Ambulatory Surgic...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals