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Share It’s been quite a year: COVID-19, a change in administration and a year of transition for FDA digital health policy. In light of all the change and uncertainty, many digital health companies are struggling to decide upon a regulatory strategy for 2021. My advice? If at all possible, stay away from FDA. They have enough to do right now. The people I know at FDA have been working 12- and 15-hour days most of the year. They’ve been doing incredible work, both on the review side ...

Megan Chan, BSN, RN-BC, DSRIP/Community Health Services/1G Metabolic Unit, is the first employee of Saint Peters University Hospital to receive the Moderna vaccine from Employee Health Services Manager Linda Vance, RN, BSN, COHN-S/CM, as Leslie D. Hirsch, president and CEO, Saint Peters Healthcare System, and Linda Carroll, MSN, RN, RN-BC, vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer, look on.PHOTO COURTESY OF SAINT PETERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL × Megan Chan, BSN, RN-...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: What You Need to Know: On December 18, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration issued the second emergency use authorization (“EUA”) for a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older.  Under the EUA, the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine can be distributed in the U.S. and shipment has begun and immunizations will begin this week. FDA’s analysis of the efficacy data from 28,207 participants 18 years of ...

Shreveport’s Overton Brooks VA Medical Center begins distributing COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers, veterans Modernas COVID-19 vaccine arrived at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Source: Overton Brooks VA Medical Center) By Rachael Thomas and Jeff Ferrell | December 22, 2020 at 12:31 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 6:42 PM Distribution began Tuesday, Dec. 22 following the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccine. Modernas COVID-19...

Key Points Employers may mandate employee COVID-19 vaccination programs, subject to certain exemptions. When requiring employee vaccinations, employers should consider the fact that these COVID-19 vaccines are currently approved under the FDAs Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Mandatory employer COVID-19 vaccination programs must include religious and disability-related employee exemptions. INTRODUCTION On Dec. 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA...

More This week, more than 61,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine will ship to North Carolina. More than 21,000 doses will be distributed to Charlotte-area hospitals and the Mecklenburg County Health Department. The health department is expecting 975 doses in the next few days. An ultra-cold freezer to store them is also on its way. Those doses will continue to go to those in Phase 1A of vaccine distribution. “Initially that includes healthcare workers, our EMTs and paramedics, our testing partner...

PARK RAPIDS — CHI St. Joseph’s Health Hospital and CHI St. Joseph’s Health Community Health/Hubbard County Public Health are planning for the first round of COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers starting this week.   Minnesota is using a “hub and spoke” model for vaccine distributions. Twenty-five locations that have sufficient cold storage have been selected around the state. These sites will then break down the shipments into smaller amounts needed for sites...

Monday, December 21, 2020 What You Need to Know: On December 18, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration issued the second emergency use authorization (“EUA”) for a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older.  Under the EUA, the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine can be distributed in the U.S. and shipment has begun and immunizations will begin this week. FDA’s analysis of the efficacy data from 28,207 participants 18 years of age and older without ev...

Intrivo Diagnostics Secures National Distribution Agreement with McKesson Medical-Surgical for Access Bio CareStart™ COVID-19 Tests LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17, 2020 — NDC, Inc. as key national partners within the Healthcare Supply Chain to help bring the CareStart™ line of COVID-19 testing products to the US market. “Our agreement with McKesson Medical-Surgical is a monumental step in our efforts to reopen America through the use of rapid testing on a mass scale. By enhancing our supply ch...

Dozens of South Florida Hospitals Expected to Receive Doses of Moderna Vaccine Next Week © SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett UKRAINE – 2020/12/15: In this photo illustration, vials and a medical syringe seen displayed in front of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States and Moderna biotechnology company’s logos. FDA finds the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Over a dozen hospitals across South Florida are ex...