Last week, all voting members of IDSA received a ballot via email from Election Services on a  proposed change to our bylaws that will allow the Board of Directors to be more responsive to the changing needs of the society.

Tune in to this 60-min podcast with IDSA member experts who define and develop stewardship programs in a variety of practice settings as they discuss changes on the national level to antimicrobial stewardship including CMS’s new Condition of Participation requirement and the CDC’s revised Core Elements.

HCVguidelines.org — the website developed by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and IDSA to provide up-to-date guidance on the management of hepatitis C — was recently revised to reflect important developments in the identification and management of chronic hepatitis C.

The G.E.R.M (Grants for Emerging Researchers/Clinicians Mentorship) Program is accepting applications for the 2020-2021 cycle.

IDSA is working with Congress and the administration on policy approaches to strengthen influenza preparedness and response.   

Medicare Administrative Contractors First Coast and Novitas Solutions, whose jurisdictions cover 12 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have finalized identical payment policies for Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panels Utilizing Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques, effective Dec. 30.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to remove from its program requirements non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity that the Obama Administration implemented through regulation in 2016.

Healio spoke with IDSA spokesperson Aaron Glatt, M.D., FIDSA, on why measles is now “everyone’s issue” after the deaths of 140,000 people from the disease.