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FDA Issues Two Guidance Documents on Food Allergen Labeling Requirements

The FDA Law Blog

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two guidance documents, one draft and one final, on food allergen labeling requirements. After reviewing comments, FDA will revise and move questions and answers to the final document, as it deems appropriate. By Sophia R. Gaulkin — Last week, the U.S.

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STAT+: Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms

STAT

Corporate documents obtained by STAT show that Epic is now recommending that its model be trained on a hospital’s own data before clinical use, a major shift aimed at ensuring its predictions are relevant to the actual patient population a hospital treats.

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FDA Releases Final Guidance on Use of Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations

The FDA Law Blog

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — As an end of the year gift, FDA finalized its guidance document, Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations , in late December. The final guidance provides additional discussion with respect to DHTs that meet the definition of a device.

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Professional Standards for Homecare Services updated by RPS

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

‘As there have been significant changes, it is strongly recommended that all definitions are read and understood to assist in the interpretation of the standards themselves and the document should be read in full,’ the Standards’ introduction says.

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It’s the Law Now –Cybersecurity Information in Premarket Submissions

The FDA Law Blog

The primary vehicle for FDA to request cybersecurity information in premarket submissions has been guidance documents. Note that section 3060(a) of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016 amended section 520 of the FD&C Act and removed certain software functions from the statutory definition of a medical device.

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Why We All Need Critical Thinking

ISPE

Originating outside our industry, and enthusiastically embraced by academic institutions and consultants globally, most of the definitions are somewhat unintelligible and hard to relate back to real life. offers no less than eleven different definitions and three sub-definitions. Critical thinking is one such buzz phrase.

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Study finds cardiac day ward pharmacists can optimise medication management

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice , the evaluation focused on all aspects of medicine use, documentation of post-procedure medication plans and resolution of medication-related problems (MRPs). A key secondary outcome was the number of MRPs accepted and resolved. MRPs per patient.