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CMS offers smartphone apps to track payments

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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Video Feature: Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, discusses gene patents (3:47)

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Featured Content

Who benefits from drug discounts?

Jaimy Lee | July 13, 2013
Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital, a small not-for-profit hospital in Ontonagon, Mich., last year generated about $1 million in revenue from a federal...
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Late News: Test limits meet resistance

Jaimy Lee | July 06, 2013
Eli Lilly and Co. and the Alzheimer's Association say that the CMS' proposal to limit coverage of a pricey...
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Featured Commentary

Unnecessary compromise

Merrill Goozner | June 08, 2013
It took the U.S. 8� 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...
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A model for reform

Grace-Marie Turner | May 04, 2013
Democrats and Republicans are sharply divided over how best to improve Medicare, a program that covers nearly 50 million Americans and that will...
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Medical Technology

Medtronic enters disease management

Wall Street Journal | August 12, 2013
Medtronic said it has acquired Cardiocom, a disease-management and patient-monitoring firm, in a move that the devicemaker hopes will turn rising...
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Judge orders Zimmer to pay Stryker $228 million in patent case

Reuters | August 09, 2013
A federal judge ordered Zimmer Holdings to pay Stryker Corp. more than $228 million for infringing on Stryker's surgical irrigation patents.
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Outsourcing

Privatization deal set for LSU hospitals in north Louisiana

Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press | August 07, 2013
Management of two LSU hospitals in north Louisiana is being turned over to a nonprofit research foundation that has never run a patient care...
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UnitedHealth 2Q profit up as enrollment improves

Associated Press | July 18, 2013
UnitedHealth Group's second-quarter net income rose almost 8%, buoyed by steady enrollment growth and slower-than-expected use of healthcare services.
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Purchasing

Going sky high

Joseph Conn | August 03, 2013
The healthcare industry is gradually overcoming its fears and is—finally—about to get high on the cloud.
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Leapfrog Group online tool helps purchasers calculate cost of hospital errors

Rachel Landen | July 25, 2013
The Leapfrog Group introduced a new online tool to help businesses calculate what they pay for hospital errors, accidents and infections, drawing a...
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