DIGITAL TECH ADOPTION INCREASING IN INDIAN HEALTHCARE

HIGHLIGHTS

• New survey shows that digital tech adoption is increasing in Indian healthcare sector.
• 74% of respondents in India reported that data solutions and digital technologies had increased the productivity of staff.
• 75% respondents rep...

TRUMP APPOINTEES INTERFERED WITH PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDANCE: US DEMOCRATS

Highlights

• The CDC in the month of August had said that people who were exposed to the novel virus but were asymptomatic didn’t require to be tested for the virus

• While the most of the states had rejected that guidance, the CDC then changed the August advic...

AstraZeneca COVID-19 VACCINE TRIAL STILL ON HOLD IN THE U.S.: HHS ALEX AZAR

Highlights

• Immediately after one of the participants in the UK had reported serious adverse reaction, the clinical trials of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, called AZD1222 were put on hold on September 6

• Azar clearly said that the trials for AstraZeneca&rsquo...

HHS: THE U.S. SHALL OBSERVE AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE RATE OF CORONA VIRUS DEATHS IN THE COMING WEEKS

Highlights

• It is predicted that hospitalizations will go down next week 
• In about two weeks, mortality rates will follow 

On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services said that in the next coupl...

HOSPITALS AND STATES IN THE U.S. SCRAMBLE TO ADOPT A NEW NATIONAL COVID-19 DATA REPORTING SYSTEM

Highlights

• The HHS instructed all hospitals to stop reporting their coronavirus data to the CDC
• Hospitals were instructed to report the data to a new portal through HHS  

Last week Trump administration implemented a new national...

HHS HIV Drug Lawsuit

On November 6, 2019, the bonds between the U.S. government and pharmaceutical organizations were extended when the U.S. Branch of Health and Human Services ("HHS") recorded a patent encroachment claim against Gilead Sciences in Delaware government court concerning Gilead's famous HI...