Biden’s Budget Seeks To Reduce Errors In Medical Diagnoses
Executive Summary
US President Joe Biden’s proposed 2023 budget earmarks funds to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to establish diagnostic safety centers of excellence to help cut down on medical testing errors.
You may also be interested in...
Stakeholders Give FDA An Earful; Poor Communication, Recall Inefficiency, Patients At Risk
During a recent listening session on modernizing its recall process, the US FDA heard from industry, consumers, and patients — all of whom expressed a common theme: the agency needs to up its game in how it handles recalls.
News We’re Watching: Free COVID-19 Tests, Edwards Antitrust Investigation, McKinsey Calls For Medtech ‘Reinvention’
This week, the US government relaunched a program providing free COVID-19 tests and invested $600m in domestic test manufacturing; the European Commission revealed an antitrust investigation of Edwards LifeSciences; and a consulting firm report said the medtech industry should make big changes to address investor skepticism.
Four More Guidance Documents Released: Antimicrobial Devices, Closed-Loop Control Technology, De Novo Submissions, Devices For Graft Versus Host Diseases
The US FDA recently published four guidance documents, two final — one concerning antimicrobial susceptibility test system devices and another related to devices with physiologic closed-loop control technology. The agency’s two draft documents pertain to electronic submissions for de novo requests and graft-versus-host diseases.