Tribal Health Programs and Urban Indian Organizations Choose How They Will Access the COVID-19 Vaccine

02. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
The Department of Health and Human Services is laying the necessary groundwork for the distribution of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by ensuring that all tribal health programs and urban Indian organizations have the choice on how they receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, HHS is announcing that all tribal health programs and UIOs have ...

Secretary Azar Statement on World AIDS Day

02. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
On the occasion of the 32nd annual World AIDS Day, December 1, 2020, HHS Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement: “Even as COVID-19 has exacerbated so many health challenges, the Trump Administration remains deeply committed to the global fight against HIV/AIDS and our goal of ending the HIV epidemic in America by 2030. This ...

Statement from HHS Chief of Staff Brian Harrison on Efforts to Increase Transparency at HHS

25. November 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through a Notice published in the Federal Register announced a policy to enhance transparency at HHS by requiring that all assumptions, working papers, models, and other information used as part of any impact analysis associated with a rule or demonstration project are shared at the time ...

HHS and DOD Award $11.6 Million Contract to Puritan Medical Products to Boost U.S. Production of Swabs for Cue Health COVID-19 Tests

24. November 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) have jointly awarded an $11.6 million contract to Puritan Medical Products Company, LLC, to expand domestic production capacity of Cue Sample Wands, the nasal swabs used exclusively with the COVID-19 cartridge-based molecular testing system developed and manufactured by Cue ...

HHS Allocates Regeneron Therapeutic to Treat Patients With Mild to Moderate COVID-19

24. November 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced plans to allocate initial doses of Regeneron’s investigational monoclonal antibody therapeutic, casirivimab and imdevimab, which received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on November 21, 2020, for treatment of non-hospitalized patients with mild or moderate confirmed cases of COVID-19 at high ...