by Malik Runswick | May 2, 2020 | Business Ownership
US infectious diseases agency BARDA is helping to fund the trial with a grant worth up to $72.5mln. (NASDAQ:SMMT) said it had recruited 252 patients into its phase III trial for its c-difficile (CDI) treatment at the end of March, though the coronavirus outbreak has slowed enrolment. The Ri-CoDIFy clinical trials are testing the superiority […]
by Malik Runswick | May 2, 2020 | Business Education
EU-funded researchers have employed quantum physics to develop an optical microscope that opens up the potential to view the tiniest of objects – including many viruses – directly for the first time. © SUPERTWIN Project, 2016 Conventional optical...
by Malik Runswick | May 2, 2020 | Business Ideas
HIMSS CEO and President Hal Wolf and Dr. Don Rucker, head of ONC.The goal of the interoperability rules is to move the healthcare system from an environment built by providers and payers to one in which patients are in control, according to Dr. Don Rucker, head of the...
by Malik Runswick | May 2, 2020 | Business Law
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released an interim final rule to remove spending associated with COVID-19 patients from performance calculations for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. CMS is extending its mitigation of shared losses back to...
by Malik Runswick | May 2, 2020 | Business News
Patient satisfaction is a metric that has garnered the interest of an increasing number of healthcare organizations, and for good reason: The more satisfied a patient is, the more likely he or she is to have experienced a positive outcome, and positive outcomes are...