CMS releases data on $3.5 billion worth of payments made by drug and device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals in the last five months of 2013; an additional 199,000 payment records were not disclosed.

In this week's podcast, managing editor Marion Webb discusses a new monthly digital health roundup which will soon feature on Medtech Insight. Managing editor Reed Miller discusses reimbursement difficulties as it applies to remote cardiac monitoring. UK-based reporter Barnaby Pickering gives an overview of an interview with the chief medical officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies about its new T-Detect platform.

Ukraine has established a system for issuing emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines that recognizes authorizations granted by other world regulators.