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Why Did a Federal Watchdog Make Just Three Findings of Misconduct?
Retraction Watch readers are likely familiar with the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI), the agency that oversees institutional investigations into misconduct in research funded by the NIH, as well as focusing on education programs. Earlier this month, ORI released data on its case closures dating back to 2006. We've charted those data in the…
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Watchdog: VA did not ensure quality of migrated data in EHR modernization efforts
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the Department of Veterans Affairs did not ensure the quality of data migrated to its new Cerner electronic health record system before the initial deployment in October 2020. In turn, observed the watchdog, clinicians found challenges with the migrated information's accessibility, accuracy and…
City watchdog threatens to boot EU firms out of London if they are not in the capital for the long haul
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US watchdog pokes Facebook a second time: Meta faces fresh monopoly lawsuit
The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint that Facebook, er, Meta operates as a monopoly will be heard by the courts after the US watchdog's initial lawsuit was dismissed. In December 2020, the FTC accused Meta of "illegally maintaining its personal social networking (PSN) monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct." It threatened to break…
US road safety watchdog decides against probe into Tesla battery fires
America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday denied a request to investigate the safety of Tesla’s electric car batteries following a series of vehicle fires in 2018 and 2019. A man named Edward Chen filed a petition in September 2019 urging the regulator to launch a probe into Tesla’s vehicles to see if there…
HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well…