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Hospitals And Health Plans See The Future Very Differently
Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street’s second-quarter results to support their thesis.…
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Throwing Money at the Past
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. The current physician training system, heavily subsidized by the federal government, has not produced doctors prepared…
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Hospitals
CMS Proposed Changes Take Sunshine Act From “Decent Idea to Regulatory Madness”
by Arundhati Parmar on July 23, 2014 Earlier this month the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released four new…
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Spine
Longitudinal associations between incident lumbar spine MRI findings and chronic low back pain or radicular symptoms
Pradeep Suri123*, Edward J Boyko14, Jack Goldberg15, Christopher W Forsberg1 andJeffrey G Jarvik678 *Corresponding author: Pradeep Suri pradeep.suriyaarachchi@va.gov Author Affiliations 1Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information…
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Financial
Medtronic, Covidien merger: Ishrak and Almeida go on tour
August 5, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani The chiefs of Medtronic and Covidien hit the road to visit a slew of company sites…
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Facility Costs, Not Professional Fees, Account for Widely Varying Prices, According to Change Healthcare’s Q1 Healthcare Transparency Index
Prices for Hip, Knee Replacements Range by More Than 1,000 Percent from Facility to Facility BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Aug. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Change…
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What’s driving millennials to health tech?
Judy Wang, MS, is a program manager in the Telehealth Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is currently serving on the Mayor’s ONEin3…
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Spine
Paralyzed patients regain movement after spinal implant: study
(Reuters) – Four men who had each been paralyzed from the chest down for more than two years and been…
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Spine
Apollo Implants LLC Announces New Technology Ushering In A New Paradigm In The Treatment of Spinal Disc Disorders
Apollo’s injectable spinal disc technology will involve a minimally invasive procedure in which the spine is mechanically stabilized from the…
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Spine
Minimus Spine Secures ISO 13485 Certification and CE Mark for TrioJection™ System
Minimus Spine, Inc. (www.minimusspine.com) announces that the company has successfully secured ISO 13485 certification of its Quality Management System and…
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Orthopedic Hybrid Power – Sales Team of the Future?
By: Josh Sandberg When I start talking about hybrid, I don’t want you to be thinking of those funny looking…
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Spine
The Economics of Spine Surgery: How Postsurgical Pain Management Makes a Difference
Written by Laura Dyrda Spine surgery is an expensive procedure, but for patients who would benefit from surgical correction the long-term…
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Recon
Faster Recovery, Less Pain in Knee Revision
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. • Mon, August 4th, 2014 Wayne G. Paprosky, M.D. is a hip and knee surgeon at…
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Recon
Revision, reoperation risks higher with unicompartmental knee replacement
Compared with patients who underwent total knee replacement, patients who underwent unicompartmental knee replacement experienced a significantly higher risk of…
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Hospitals
FDA names 107 devices it will exempt under new guidelines
August 4, 2014 | By Joseph Keenan The FDA released a list of 107 medical devices it will exempt from its 510(k) premarket notification regulations…
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