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As the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) annually funds over $38 billion in extramural research, including about $6 billion for clinical trials. On May 28,...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
Speaking at CES 2024 earlier this year, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf expressed significant concerns about the FDA’s ability to effectively regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in the...more
Nearly nine years to the day the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft “information sheet” on informed consent, the agency published a 66-page final guidance document on the topic—marking the first time since 1998...more
Introduction - Hardly a day goes by when we don’t see some media report of health care providers experimenting with machine learning, and more recently with generative AI, in the context of patient care. The allure is...more
The information age in which we live is reaching a new milestone with the development and ready access to conversational artificial intelligence based on advanced transformer algorithms, or AI chatbots, including their...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new draft guidance, Considerations for the Design and Conduct of Externally Controlled Trials for Drug and Biological Products (the “External Controls Draft Guidance”), that...more
The health care industry is increasingly adopting mobile apps for a variety of purposes, including tracking patient health conditions and sharing patient data. Privacy and security are important considerations, and it is...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a proposed rule that would extensively modify and modernize its current regulations governing the protection of human subjects and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).1 If...more
In September 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its final guidance, “Clinical Decision Support Software,” representing a shift from what was proposed in the 2019 draft guidance. The guidance document is...more
On September 28, 2022, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) published the long-awaited final guidance, “Clinical Decision Support Software” (the “Final CDS Guidance”). The Final CDS Guidance supersedes...more
There were so many interesting and significant developments related to the various missions of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the last week or so of September 2022 that we decided to create a summary...more
On September 27, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two Notices of Proposed Rule Making that would harmonize the FDA’s human subject protection regulations with the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Beginning Oct. 1, Renee Wegrzyn will be the first permanent director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the new HHS agency modeled...more
Hear about the latest in research compliance - Do you want to learn… - How to prepare for upcoming changes in Medicaid? - Ways to build and maintain a better research compliance work plan for your program? - How...more
It is, somewhat amazingly, the beginning of January again. During this time of year we typically publish a series of blog posts that recap the most interesting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) activities over the prior 12...more
On December 8, 2021 and in response to the mandate under the 21st Century Cures Act to issue guidance on the use of real-world evidence (RWE) in regulatory decision-making, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released...more
Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration released the latest in a series of draft guidance documents on the topic of real-world data (RWD) to support regulatory decision-making for drugs and biological products....more
On November 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule rescinding the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology and Definition of “Reasonable and Necessary” final rule (MCIT/R&N). As...more
The global pandemic has accelerated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) encouragement of real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) (the clinical evidence derived from analysis of RWD), particularly as the FDA...more
Last week, Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) introduced in the House highly anticipated bill language for “Cures 2.0”, a follow-up to the transformational 21st Century Cures Act enacted in 2016... The 21st Century...more
In December 2016, fifteen Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including then-Commissioner Robert Califf and current Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine...more
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people than ever have downloaded and used mobile applications, or apps, to communicate with their doctors, manage prescriptions, and streamline much of the healthcare activity...more
It’s summer blockbuster season and that means sequels abound. Now it seems that the U.S. Congress wants in on the action. Just five years after Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act, a bipartisan group of...more
Background on Cures 2.0 - The COVID-19 pandemic response demonstrated the tremendous impact innovation can have on a global scale. The unprecedented experiences of the past year and a half have spurred renewed interest in...more