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Stryker Corp. will spend $1.4 billion to acquire Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Mako Surgical and all of its robotic assisted surgery technology
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The humble stretcher used for transporting patients has gone high-tech and high-cost. The average price paid for stretchers jumped 20% over the past year as more hospitals purchased costlier models that have complex features, such as motorized drives or compatibility with X-ray imaging devices,...
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As the number and array of health apps for mobile devices continue to explode, the federal government will keep its regulatory focus on a narrow band of products that pose the most potential risk.
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HHS is searching for the best idea for a system that captures essential data from durable medical equipment, such as loss of power, GPS location and privacy-protected user information during emergencies.
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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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A new rule requiring medical devices to be marked with identification information is expected to improve patient safety and make hospital supply operations more efficient. But the Food and Drug Administration will take another seven years to roll out the system, and much of its success depends on...
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MGMA-ACMPE hired Garth Jordan as COO. Jordan previously served as director of marketing and business development for the Englewood, Colo.-based Medical Group Management Association from 1997 to 2000. Jordan, 47, most recently was VP of operations at Educause, a not-for-profit whose mission...
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Perhaps one of the most uncomfortable things a doctor has to tell patients is that their medical problems were caused by a doctor in the course of treatment. Sometime these injuries are accidental. But sometimes, because of the limits of medical technology, they can be inevitable. Now, a medical...
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Some physician and patient advocacy groups say Cigna's policy to require genetic counseling before patients can get coverage for genetic testing for three conditions is flawed and may delay treatment.
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Johns Hopkins researchers have found that adverse events associated with the da Vinci robotic surgery system have been “vastly underreported.”
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