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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

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a software-as-a-service that focuses on automated prior authorization services for both medical and pharmaceutical benefits. DrFirst to speed up medication approvals Rockville, Maryland-based DrFirst announced that it purchased all assets of the Myndshft Technologies, Inc.

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

Bill Of Health

Pressure from Senator Bernie Sanders, Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee seems to have catalyzed the administration to make this move. pharmaceutical market. pharmaceutical market. In 1989, the U.S. None of these instances have chilled innovation or resulted in market delays.

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State Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Behavioral Health Workforce

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The 2020 West Virginia Behavioral Health Workforce Development Plan , a product of a state-university partnership funded through the federal State Opioid Response (SOR) grant, places specific emphasis on SUD treatment workforce, and highlights the need to engage equity and diversity leaders in behavioral health workforce development.

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Healthcare Reforms Under the IRA: Expanding Access to Care

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With respect to biological products, however, such drugs must be licensed in accordance with the Public Health Service Act (“PHSA”) for at least 11 years, and marketed in conformance with the PHSA. A safe harbor applicable to flat fee arrangements paid by pharmaceutical manufacturers directly to PBMs for PBM services.

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How a National Emergency Can Bring the Monkeypox Outbreak Under Control

Bill Of Health

Grossly-underfunded and overwhelmed public health agencies are not able to conduct proper surveillance and face vast shortages of testing services, vaccines, and treatment. Persons experiencing symptoms of monkeypox can be effectively treated with known pharmaceuticals, but accessing them, like vaccines, has proven monumental.

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From Shutting Down the Virus to Letting it Rip: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response

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I argue that Biden’s advisors chose a narrow path of pharmaceutical intervention (i.e., a “vaccine-only” approach) because they saw the politics of a comprehensive public health response as a losing proposition. Biden’s campaign message went, “I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m going to shut down the virus.”