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Medtronic buys telehealth provider Cardiocom

By Joseph Conn | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web

Medical-device maker Medtronic, Minneapolis, is making a push into the world of pure-play health information technology with the acquisition of telehealth and patient remote-monitoring services provider Cardiocom, a privately held firm based in Chanhassen, Minn.
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CMS offers smartphone apps to track payments

By Rachel Landen | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web

With the Aug. 1 implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, the CMS has launched two mobile smartphone applications to help physicians, drug and medical-device manufacturers, and group purchasing organizations track payments and other transfers of value.
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The new normal? | Shift to outpatient care, payer pressure hit hospitals

By Beth Kutscher and Melanie Evans | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine

Three years ago, Henry Ford Health System began to overhaul how its doctors and nurses care for patients outside the Detroit-based system's six hospitals. Now it must face the economic strains of its own success, as fewer patients turn up to fill hospital beds.
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In need of a new hip, but priced out of the U.S.

By New York Times | August 04, 2013

Michael Shopenn’s artificial hip was made by a company based in the remote town of Warsaw, Ind., a global center of joint manufacturing. But he had to fly to Europe to have it installed.
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Reform Update: Aug. 1 brings deadline to report physician payments

By Andis Robeznieks | July 29, 2013 | Basic Web

While much attention was given to the decision to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's employer mandate by one year, another ACA deadline quietly arrives this week.
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For doctors and med firms, a new era of disclosure

By Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | July 29, 2013

The nation’s medical-device makers and drug companies will begin collecting this week what is expected to become a massive stockpile of data on their financial relationships with doctors, researchers and teaching hospitals.
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Doctors on curbing costs: Ask the lawyers

July 27, 2013 | Print Magazine

Mayo Clinic researchers asked physicians who should play the biggest role in addressing healthcare costs and to rate their enthusiasm for various ways to do it
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Surgeons eyed over deals with medical-device makers

By Wall Street Journal | July 26, 2013

Ten months after Aria Sabit arrived in Ventura, Calif., local hospital staffers noticed he suddenly developed a preference for an obscure brand of spinal implants for many of his surgeries.
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Cumming returns as Hologic CEO

By Rachel Landen | July 22, 2013 | Basic Web

Hologic's former CEO Jack Cumming has once again been named president and CEO of the Bedford, Mass., developer, manufacturer and supplier of diagnostic and medical imaging products for women's health.
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Device tax receipts now top $1 billion, industry says

By (Minneapolis) Star Tribune | July 16, 2013

The U.S. medical device industry says it has paid more than $1 billion to the federal government since a new tax on gross sales took effect at the beginning of the year.
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