It will be more than a year for the U.S. healthcare industry to return to normal, with physicians expecting the new normal to be sometime around August 2021—once a vaccine for COVID-19 has been distributed.

The rule eliminates provisions of a 2016 rule from the Obama administration that attempted to protect trans patients from discrimination.

CEO Jim Rechtin said such actions will include “reinvigorating” the Nashville physician firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and creating a plan within the next 60 days to promote change in its service areas. 

Those include the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and American College of Radiology, which want a reprieve from training for imaging and localization studies until after the public health crisis. 

Clinicians use the device to image blood flow dynamics during retinal exams, helping them spot age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vein occlusions.

The Royal College of Radiologists estimates that the country needs another 1,900 physicians to work through all of the cases, and many scanners in the United Kingdom are over a decade old. 

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and White House Advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, delved into the recent confusion about the rate of COVID-19 transmission from those who may be asymptomatic.

HR professionals’ duties will include everything from contacting furloughed employees to delegating screening tasks.