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Digital healthcare regulators, experts and developers discussed the Digital Health Applications (DiGA) process, and yesterday’s (24 Feb) Evidence Con session was designed to help innovators find out more about the new evidence requirements for the assessment of digital products in Germany.
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) is responsible for the DiGA Fast-Track, which is now up and running. Eleven medical apps to help treat a range of conditions, such as tinnitus and insomnia, have already been listed - with an additional 55 in the certfication process.
WHY IT MATTERS
The DiGA Fast-Track was created by the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act and legislative changes mean that apps can now be prescribed by doctors and costs will be reimbursed through German health insurance. However, there are legal and regulatory hurdles to overcome before the apps can be listed and Data Protection Standards within German healthcare are strict.
Guest commentary: Southeastern University thanks local law enforcement
Kent Ingle
On Friday, the safety of Southeastern University was put to the test.
Within minutes of receiving a threatening email, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office dispatched officers to our campus and members of our Sentinel program mobilized, ready to protect our community. Although Friday’s events transpired without casualty, it reminded us that even in uncertain times, we must do everything we can to ensure the safest learning environment for our students, faculty and staff.
Over the course of the year, educational institutions around the world have been met with unprecedented circumstances when dealing with safety and a pandemic. We have been forced to alter the way we approach operations on our campuses.
Our View: Law enforcement union should join reform efforts
Instead, the Maine Association of Police is digging in to defend officers who may be charged with misconduct.
By The Editorial Board
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The most significant American death in this pandemic year may turn out to have had nothing to do with COVID. It was the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd, a slow-motion suffocation in front of numerous witnesses on a busy Minneapolis street. It was perpetrated by a white police officer who put his knee in the back of a prone man’s neck and calmly let a life slip away, as a bystander’s cellphone camera rolled.
Maine police union group to start legal defense fund for officers
It s partly in response to the killing of George Floyd in May at the hands of Minneapolis police, as well as the widespread social uprisings and scrutiny of police conduct that followed.
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A statewide police association plans to start raising more than $100,000 a year to help defend Maine officers who may be charged with crimes or sued for conduct on duty, a response to high-profile shootings in other states that led to charges against police.
Dubbed the Sentinel Program, the new legal protections provided by the Maine Association of Police started Oct. 1 for its nearly 1,000 member officers. To pay for the services, the group will increase weekly dues starting in January from $9 to $12, with $1 of the added cost going toward administration.
but most people want to return to some sense of normalcy, whatever that might be for stoneman douglas for the rest of the year. but i would say probably by monday when we go back to the full schedule, then it will feel like the normal school with more security on campus. i want to get you to weigh in on the debate about how to prevent something like this from happening again. as you know, president trump is among those who floated this very controversial idea of arming some teachers. he says only those who are highly trained. do you agree with that idea? do you think that he could have a point? he might have a point. i m having trouble thinking that i would be armed with a gun. i ve talked to a lot of people over the last week about this. i know there is a sentinel program in polk county in florida that they say is affective and there has been no shoot gz in polk countries so it is hard to say if it is affective. i know staff wouldn t prefer for us to have guns and more security pe