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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Here’s our overview to understand robotics in healthcare better so that everyone can prepare for the appearance of mechanic helpers in medical facilities. For this reason, we collected here the most useful robots in healthcare. By 2027, global surgical robotics sales are expected to reach $14.8

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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Imposes New (State-Only) Medi-Cal Premiums for Undocumented Adults – Implements $100 monthly premiums for undocumented adults aged 19 and older, effective January 1, 2027. As such, we will continue to advocate fiercely for a health system that supports the dignity and health of all people, especially those historically marginalized.

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RWE There Yet? FDA’s New Pilot Program Seeks to Help Usher in a New Era for Real World Evidence

FDA Law Blog

These data are routinely collected from a variety of sources, such as electronic health records, providing information on health and healthcare in actual patients, rather than in the controlled environment of a clinical trial. There will be two submission deadlines per year on March 31 and September 30, through March 31, 2027.

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Proposed LDT Rule Raises Many Questions but Provides Few Answers

FDA Law Blog

The brevity of this change belies the foreseeably seismic impact of FDA regulation of clinical laboratories on the healthcare system. How to leverage “programs such as the New York State Department of Health Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program (NYSDOH CLEP) or those within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).”

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Wearables, Sensors, and Apps Part 1 – Updates on FDA’s PDUFA VII Goals for the Use of Digital Health Technologies in Drug and Biological Product Development

FDA Law Blog

A DHT is considered “a system that uses computing platforms, connectivity, software, and sensors for healthcare and related uses.” DHTs have been used in clinical trials for decades in the context of measurements made when participants visit clinical trial sites.

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“TAP Dancing” Towards Faster Device Commercialization: CDRH’s Total Product Life Cycle Advisory (“TAP”) Program

FDA Law Blog

In FY 2026 – FY 2027, continue to support products enrolled in previous fiscal years and expand to enroll up to 100 additional products each fiscal year within existing OHTs or expand to additional OHTs, depending on lessons learned from FY 2023 – FY 2025 experience (i.e., up to 125 total products enrolled through FY 2025).

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

It always has clinical relevance to practice today. And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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