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CLEVELAND—Healthcare leaders and local officials celebrated the completion of the Global Center for Health Innovation, a long-planned venue to showcase healthcare technology and ideas. Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald told about 400 invited guests to the Oct. 8 ceremony that the...
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The CEO of St. Jude Medical says that there's still room for innovation in the device industry at the intersection of cost-cutting and improved patient health.
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In the healthcare environment of the future, quality outcomes and population management, both of which will be tied to reimbursement, will be key issues for healthcare executives to stay on top of. Technology used to harness, interpret, coordinate and optimize data created by patients' different...
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Digital Technology Impacting Healthcare is a Modern Healthcare three-part webinar series sponsored by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA).
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The government shutdown has led to furloughs of about half of the staff at the Food and Drug Administration and the Health Resources and Services Administration and may lead to delays in the agencies' operations.
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One morning in June, several students at Eastern Maine Medical Center watched a live video of a surgical procedure. In a nearby operating room, trauma surgeon Rafael Grossman was on the business end of the video feed. The surgeon recorded the procedure using Google Glass, the wearable computer and...
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In May, actress Angelina Jolie stunned the world when she revealed that she'd undergone a preventive double mastectomy after genetic testing showed she was at a high risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer. Since her disclosure, there has been a marked increase in genetic testing at treatment...
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What it does: Infosys Public Services, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Indian firm Infosys, provides business consulting and technology products and services to healthcare and public-sector organizations.
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High-priced technology—not the economy and not healthcare reform—has the most potential to drive U.S. health spending growth upward in the years ahead, a new Brookings Institution analysis has found.
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Slower growth in the medical device industry, tougher regulatory standards and reluctant investors will force companies into new areas for expansion, according to Ernst & Young's annual report.
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