Breaking down Biden's $7.3T proposed budget for 2025: Here are his top health priorities Good summary of budget allocations for healthcare.
About hospitals and healthcare systems
Healthgrades Announces 2024 Top Hospitals in Patient Experience and Patient Safety FYI
About pharma
US proposes scrapping biosimilar interchangeability requirement “In an effort to boost uptake of biosimilars in the US, the government’s budget for 2025 includes a provision that would allow substitution without the need for an interchangeable designation from the FDA. According to the budget documents, the move would ‘deem all approved biosimilars to be interchangeable with their respective reference products.’”
About the public’s health
WHO HIV drug resistance – brief report 2024 “Levels of observed DTG resistance in real world populations receiving ART appear to be higher than anticipated from clinical trials. WHO recommends that countries routinely implement standardised surveillance of HIVDR to follow the prevalence and patterns of resistance among people not achieving suppressed viral load.”
About healthcare IT
Healthcare continues to make gains in data exchange with 49% jump in electronic prior authorization “At the end of 2023, 1.29 million prescribers were using e-prescribing, a nearly 5% increase from 2022, and 83.2% of these clinicians were also enabled for electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), according to Surescripts' latest national progress report…”