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Financial relationships between the healthcare industry and the clinical community are a prevalent aspect of the healthcare landscape. A common financial interaction, for example, is when a physician receives a fee for consulting with a pharmaceutical...
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It took the U.S. 8½ years to land a man on the moon but it will take more than a dozen years to accomplish the task of being able to electronically trace fake or tainted drugs back to their source.
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Democrats and Republicans are sharply divided over how best to improve Medicare, a program that covers nearly 50 million Americans and that will spend almost $600 billion this year.
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An environment where hospitals are under pressure to purchase medical and surgical supplies that promise the best clinical outcomes at the lowest price is here to stay, according to comments made by group purchasing executives at an industry conference this week.
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Last Wednesday, I asked Maureen McKinney, one of our reporters, for a copy of the Institute of Medicine's new report, Best Care at Lower Cost. The 382-page report was truly a showstopper.
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The federal government has targeted billions of dollars of savings for the Medicare program by reducing the number of preventable readmissions.Financial penalties to hospitals with excessive readmission rates begin Oct. 1.
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Personal health records and health record banks are nothing new. Then again, neither are data breaches, consumer surveys saying people want their privacy rights respected and provider surveys indicating, within limits, that they'd like to respect their patients' privacy desires.
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Regarding “Drug-diversion turf war,” (March 5): Prescription drug abuse is a serious problem, but blaming the distributor for how pharmaceuticals are ultimately sold and used is deeply misguided and will create a supply chain chokehold...
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