Our country and every municipality is looking at issues of aging and the ways in which the values of the country, state, local, exercise those into services and understandings of the way people age and the kinds of services they need. I am wondering if you can give a short history of what department of aging and Adult Services here is in San Francisco. Certainly. San francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities. We are a leader in that. The department has been around for a long time but came together with services in 2000. Our Biggest Program is in Home Supportive Services which provides home care for 22,000 people in San Francisco. We do other things as well. So the department in and of itself is 17 years old. Yes. The department itself. The city was providing the services well before that. Yes. So what is new on the horizon . There are a lot of things on the horizon that are new. One of the things thats new and i think ramona and i
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[ is distinct conversations ]. And live here this morning on c spann span 3, a discussion about transparency and oversight at the food and Drug Administration. Well be hearing from dr. Scott gottlieb starting off the conference. Introductions under way. Efforts to pass and implement the food safety modernization act, focus on medical devices, especially the potential of using the unique device identifier to improve monitoring devices throughout the product lifecycle. We have successfully worked on products 10 to courage innovation particularly around antibiotics and 10 to sure appropriate use of them. We focused on drug safety and transparency in the supply chain and especially on the safety of compounded drugs. Among other things, pew submitted transparency to the task force back in 2010 if the. They touch on some of the topics well be discussing today. Reading the background papers for todays meet regular mind med of a meeting we convened in a room directly above of us here a few yea
Process to approve new drugs. This is 35 minutes. Thanks a lot. Thanks for the opportunity to be here today. We had a dialogue over many years, and i appreciate the relationship we had talking about policy issues. I wrote a subsequent article saying whats taking you so long, josh. So ive been waiting for him to return the favor, and i just got a copy of it. So i appreciate it very much. Thanks for the opportunity to be here today. Thanks john hopkins for hoestin this, and pew for providing space. Transparency can be a powerful tool for innovation. New platforms for visualizing large complex data sets present important new opportunities for the research and Development Community for regulators and for clinicians. It allows people to harness data to advance the safe and effective and Efficient Development for medical needs and to communicate information supporting regulatory Decision Making in ways that engender Greater Public confidence in those decisions. The fdas goal is to advance tr