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The Food and Drug Administration delivered its final rule on a long-awaited regime to place unique identifiers on medical devices, a system that promises to improve patient safety and make hospital supply operations more efficient. But it will take another seven years to roll out the system.
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The CMS late Friday laid out the standards for the healthcare reform law's Basic Health Program, which gives states the option to establish a health benefits program for low-income individuals who otherwise would be eligible to buy coverage in the health...
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Congress worked itself into a déjà vu budget stalemate with the healthcare reform law at the heart of it. Policy experts, though, said Washington's current fiscal fights won't have a significant impact on the healthcare industry this year.
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At least 15 people may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from neurosurgery instruments used on a patient suspected to have died from the rare brain disorder at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., said that five patients who underwent...
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Healthcare is still a reliable jobs engine amid an otherwise feeble recovery in the labor market, according to the government's employment snapshot for August.
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Cigarette makers' growing move into electronic cigarettes is facing new resistance from large employers.
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After building it, they will leave. Rulon Stacey and Bruce Schroffel, who helped create University of Colorado Health three years ago, are stepping down from their respective positions as president and CEO, effective Jan. 31.
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A new law in North Carolina marks a major advance in the movement to make healthcare prices more transparent for consumers. It arises from growing pressure on lawmakers and healthcare providers to give the public access to price information enabling patients to more effectively shop for care, thus...
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Five months ago, Community Health Systems Chairman, President and CEO Wayne Smith and Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove unveiled a partnership they explained as a means to marry clinical and data and expertise to improve quality and efficiency.
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Healthcare prices are growing at historically low rates, according to new estimates from the Altarum Institute.
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