Rene Letourneau
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed rule on July 3 that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier (UDI).
At the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI conference in Las Vegas in late June, I had the pleasure of attending a keynote speech given by Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who successfully landed a plane on the Hudson River in January 2009, saving the lives of the 155 people on board.
The obesity epidemic in the U.S. will eventually bankrupt the nation if left unchecked, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, which held a webcast June 5 to outline its recommendations for curbing the crisis.
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a one-year delay for ICD-10 implementation in February 2012 -- pushing the date back to Oct. 1, 2014 -- shrewd CFOs kept their focus and pushed forward with their implementation plans and schedules.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill Monday designed to control the state's healthcare costs. Included in the legislation is an overhaul of the medical liability system, which proponents say will decrease the cost of defensive medicine.
At the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI conference in Las Vegas in late June, I had the pleasure of attending a keynote speech given by Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who successfully landed a plane on the Hudson River in January 2009, saving the lives of the 155 people on board.
The use of generic prescription drugs has risen to a current rate of $1 billion every other day, saving the U.S. healthcare system more than $1 trillion over the last 10 years (2002-2011), according to a report released Thursday by the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA).
Healthcare added 12,000 jobs to the nation's economy in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Global competition and the impending medical device tax, set to begin Jan. 1, 2013, are creating challenges for the U.S. biomedical device industry, according to a new study by tax advisory firm WTP Advisors.
Healthcare and pharma IT mergers and acquisitions transaction volume increased 28 percent while transaction value decreased 14 percent during the first half of 2012, according to a new report from mid-market investment banking firm Berkery Noyes.