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Diagnostics World News | Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced regulatory changes that require nursing homes to test staff and offer testing to residents for COVID-19. Laboratories and nursing homes using point-of-care testing devices will be required to report diagnostic test results as required by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The new rules also require hospitals to provide COVID-19 cases and related data to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Aug 26, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | At day one of the Next Generation Dx Summit, MD Anderson Cancer Center highlighted “unprecedented opportunities” for blood-based biomarkers in cancer detection, Merck weighed in on the regulatory environment for companion diagnostics, FDA gave an update on selected precision oncology initiatives of the agency, and more.
Aug 25, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | August featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Adaptive Biotechnologies, Strata Oncology, and more.
Aug 24, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | After years of uncertainty over the future of laboratory developed tests (LDTs), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has determined the FDA does not have the authority to regulate lab-developed tests for any condition according to a rescission posted on Wednesday.
Aug 21, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Disturbing uptick in partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, ICD-10 codes insufficient for capturing COVID-19 related symptoms, the role of mobile health technologies to monitor patients at home, the role of children in community spread, and impact of different types of antibodies. Plus, neutralizing antibodies for sale.
Aug 21, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Measuring the concentration of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol particles is a more reliable predictor of heart disease and stroke than the standard metric of total HDL cholesterol—that is, unless you’re trying to assess the risk of a heart attack in someone who is black. Then, surprisingly, neither method is helpful.
Aug 20, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | More than one-third of U.S. adults over age 65 may face difficulties seeing their doctor via telemedicine, for reasons ranging from poor hearing and eyesight, dementia, to owning no internet-enabled devices. To build a more accessible telemedicine system will require taking steps to overcome both disability and the high prevalence of inexperience with technology in the senior population.
Aug 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World | As health systems across the globe continue to deal with large numbers of COVID-19 cases, new and emerging technologies may be able to help in this regard.
Aug 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | New COVID-19 risk model developed by Cleveland Clinic and published findings from a retesting study. Plus, symptom trackers deployed by colleges for Back to School and quantified synthetic virus fragments available from NIST.
Aug 14, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Pacific Biosciences and Asuragen have launched a clinical research collaboration aimed at developing molecular assays based on PacBio’s Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing technology.
Aug 11, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | As the pandemic has dragged on, medical practices everywhere have also started thinking seriously about how to better fit telehealth into their patient care workflow over the long term.
Aug 11, 2020