Collaborations Senate HELP Committee Continues Work on 21st Century Cures Corollary Thomas Sullivan Mar 23, 2016 0 Earlier this week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on a package of…
Conflict of Interest ProPublica: Tying Open Payments Physician Data to Medicare Part D Data Thomas Sullivan Mar 22, 2016 0 ProPublica is once again trying to make a "correlation equals causation" argument between payments made to physicians…
CDC CDC Releases Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids Thomas Sullivan Mar 21, 2016 0 The dramatic increase in overdose deaths due to opioids has been a major focus of political and medical leaders over the…
Open Payments Compliance Officers as Chief Data Analyst Thomas Sullivan Mar 18, 2016 0 With the US Sunshine reporting data fast approaching March 31, compliance teams are heads down in getting the spend records…
CME New Canadian CME Standards for Commercial Support Thomas Sullivan Mar 17, 2016 0 Canada has created new standards for industry involvement with accredited CME programs. Three professional…
Congress Senate Introduces Bill Eliminating the Tax Deduction for DTC Advertising Thomas Sullivan Mar 16, 2016 1 Four Democrats have introduced a Senate companion bill to the House bill to ban nearly all direct-to-consumer (DTC)…
Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology… Thomas Sullivan Mar 16, 2016 0 The United States Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule last week that would permit the…
DTC FDA National Direct to Consumer Advertising Survey – Again Thomas Sullivan Mar 15, 2016 0 If at first you don't succeed try, try again. That seems to be the theme of a recent announcement by the Food and Drug…
FDA PDFUA-MDUFA Update March 2016 Thomas Sullivan Mar 14, 2016 0 Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug administration kicked off the reauthorization process for MDUFA, or the Medical Device…
Open Payments CMS Opens Physician and Teaching Hospital Registration for Open Payments… Thomas Sullivan Mar 13, 2016 1 CMS has announced that the Open Payments system is now open for physician and teaching hospital registration. While…