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FEMA wants to set up a combined government-industry committee to support distribution of pandemic-response products, but the federal agency likely to get pushback from the device industry over antitrust concerns during a scheduled May 21 teleconference. That, technology takeaways from the just-released Medicare hospital inpatient payment proposal, and more in this week’s Pathways’ Picks.
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency wants to forge a five-year “voluntary agreement” and set up a committee, with device and drug firms, and other makers of “critical health and medical resources” for COVID-19, under the Defense Production Act. That and more in the latest Pathways’ Picks roundup.
