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Late News: FDA delivers rule on medical device identifiers
By Modern Healthcare | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Program establishes benefits for low-income individuals
By Modern Healthcare | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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New budget battle erupts | Affordable Care Act at center of congressional fight over funding
By Jessica Zigmond | September 14, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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 possibly exposed to fatal brain disease in Mass., Connecticut
By Jaimy Lee | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Cutting back | Healthcare a stable source of jobs—except hospitals
By Ashok Selvam | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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E-cigarette use penalized | Some employers imposing tobacco-use fees
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Cigarette makers' growing move into electronic cigarettes is facing new resistance from large employers.
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Late News: Builders of UC Health to leave
By Andis Robeznieks and Beth Kutscher | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: N.C. requires posting of prices
By Andis Robeznieks | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Systems unveil joint alliance
By Gregg Blesch | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Slow growth | Altarum Institute: Higher healthcare prices unlikely
By Jaimy Lee | August 17, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Healthcare prices are growing at historically low rates, according to new estimates from the Altarum Institute.
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