FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Palmer — On Friday, October 6, 2023, DEA announced a second extension of telemedicine flexibilities concerning the prescribing of controlled substances, which were originally set to expire after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. By Karla L. DEA received a whopping 38,000 (!) comments on the two proposed rules.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 10, 2023

Palmer — We blogged earlier this week here that DEA is reconsidering its proposed rules for telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances and buprenorphine. 30,038 (May 10, 2023). 802(54)(G) (which references CMS’s statutory definition of “practice of telemedicine”). By Karla L.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 7, 2023

Palmer — On May 3, 2023, DEA’s Administrator Anne Milgram issued a very brief and lightly publicized statement announcing that DEA intends to issue a “temporary rule” extending telemedicine flexibilities that existed during the COVID-19 Emergency Declaration, which Declaration is set to expire on May 11, 2023. By Karla L.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Palmer — The 2008 Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act placed strict limits on online prescribing or the use of telemedicine encounters to prescribe controlled substances. The Act also established new definitions for “Internet,” “online pharmacy,” “practice of telemedicine,” among others. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation. For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. Instead of a human, however, they used a mannequin designed for medical training.

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Emerging Leaders Dr. Charles Charman, medical director and overseer of the Emerging Leaders program, presents at the 2024 EmLe cohort session at MDS. Of the cohort member s who fulfilled all the 2023 program requirements , 11 clinicians officia lly mov ed into a leadership role withi n 48 mont hs of the program.

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