- Nevada Board of Pharmacy: Chart Order Versus Prescription (bop.nv.gov)
…some hospitals are providing pharmaceutical services to hospital patients being discharged, and that some retail pharmacies are providing pharmaceutical services to long-term care facilities and/or skilled nursing facilities in violation of Nevada Revised Statutes and Nevada Administrative Code.
- FDA publishes API-salt naming policy (in-pharmatechnologist.com)FDA's "Naming of Drug Products Containing Salt Drug Substances" (fda.gov)
FDA has been developing its naming policy for API salts...since December 2013 following the implementation of the US Pharmacopoeia's monograph…final guidance on the subject, deciding that new drugs will be named after their API alone – ‘newdrug’ and not ‘newdrug hydrochloride’ …to minimize potential confusion.
- Physicians are not ready for ICD-10: Here’s why (medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com)
Primary care physicians are not yet ready for ICD-10, and still are experiencing considerable challenges in preparing for the transition….Only 38% of physician respondents said they were will be ready..greatest roadblocks…combination of training cost and/or time, software vendors readiness, physician and staff buy-in…. post-transition cash flow issues.
- OSHA to crack down on hospitals that don’t protect nurses from injury (fiercehealthcare.com)
Noncompliant hospitals will face fines up to $70K. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has announced a new initiative to drastically increase scrutiny of injuries among hospital nursing staff….. step up regulation of occupational risks in healthcare settings in the wake of an April report…
- Four healthcare consequences of King v. Burwell (managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com)
..consequences that likely will follow from the Court’s decision.---bureaucrats can now proceed with their regulatory activities ---health insurers now gain the certainty that is required for proper rate setting--- smaller businesses, likely…to comply with their ACA mandate--- there is little incentive for new state exchanges.
- Too much reporting = less patient care (modernhealthcare.com)
Too much data documentation may distract hospital infection preventionists from their main job—reducing the prevalence of hospital-acquired conditions,…Two full-time infection-prevention specialists at one 355-bed acute-care hospital logged…about 5/hrs/day..at…public reporting…in lieu of what they preferred to do: rounding, staff and patient education, product analysis and safety preparedness.
- The Affordable Care Act lives: Supreme Court decision upholds premium subsidies (medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com)Text of the Supreme Court Ruling King v. Burwell (supremecourt.gov)
Supreme Court rejects challenge to subsidies for buying healthcare insurance…much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of King v. Burwell that tax subsidies for buying healthcare insurance made available through the law apply in all 50 states.
- Indian pharma’s struggle to tighten standards paves way for M&A deals (reuters.com)
India's smaller generic drugmakers, struggling to cope with…tougher regulation in the United States, are under pressure to consider branching out to new, less-profitable markets or sell out to larger rivals…Ranbaxy's $500 million U.S. fine for drug safety violations…
- Sealed sex crimes case against doctor leaves unanswered questions (reviewjournal.com)Las Vegas doctor taped himself having sex with sedated girl, woman, police say (reviewjournal.com)
Police knew in 2006 that a Las Vegas doctor had been accused of sex crimes against a teenager. But that case was sealed; its outcome unknown. The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners…knew about the 2006 charges….now accused of having sex with a sedated girl while in his office and videotaping it….
- Obamacare’s next 5 hurdles to clear (healthcareitnews.com)
Political maneuvering around ACA isn't going away. 1) Medicaid expansion 2) Anemic enrollment 3) Market stability 4) Affordability 5) Political resistance