Medical Devices

The Food and Drug Administration and General Electric are recalling more than 5,000 MRI systems in the U.S. and urging providers to do thorough testing.

All healthcare subsectors -- services, IT, medical devices and life sciences -- are benefiting from open equity and demand for products and services.

If hospitals are required to record unique device identifiers (UDIs) in electronic health records, there will be a need for supply chain involvement. But what that involvement should look like--and when--is still unknown.

Here's a look at some recent headlines in the world of healthcare finance.

Consumerism in healthcare is changing the industry, as patients are paying far closer attention to the costs of medical care than in the past. This change will likely shape the top 10 issues faced by providers in 2015, claims a new report by the PwC Health Research Institute.

Shares of medical device maker Medtronic Inc. surged Tuesday after the Minneapolis-based company said it would go ahead with its planned $49.2 billion merger with Covidien.

As cost control initiatives take on increasing weight at hospitals and health systems, organizations must focus more intently on stemming the costs of medical device procurement.

More than 80 percent of hospitals in the U.S. expect to be engaging in sustainability purchasing within two years, according to a recent survey. For the hospitals that expect to jump on the green bandwagon, there's a lot to learn.

The Cleveland Clinic and University of Texas Health are using the nation's first mobile stroke units to treat stroke patients sooner, and both show promise in preserving patients' quality of life and saving a great deal of money.

Among a variety of high risk, high reward investments for health systems, robotic surgery is emerging as a technology with lots of promise as well as conflicting evidence.