◆ In a Dec. 10 Federal Register notice, CMS said it will not enforce compliance with the interoperability regulation “until we are able to address certain implementation challenges.”^[1]

◆ A Chicago-area physician was criminally charged with unlawfully using veterinary catheters to perform intrauterine inseminations on his patients, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said Dec. 8.^[2] A criminal information alleged that Joel Brasch of Skokie, Illinois, unlawfully used the veterinary catheter devices on his patients from 2016 to 2018. “The devices were considered adulterated in that they had not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use on human patients,” the U.S. attorney’s office alleged. Brasch is “charged with receipt in interstate commerce and delivery of an adulterated device.”