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Medical Devices

Aug 22 | Susan Morse

Hospitals are demanding secure medical devices before they buy

The IoT: "Every something that comes on the market is in essence it's own small computer with an ability to find its…

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Aug 09 | Susan Morse

Medical devices pose cybersecurity and patient threat

Security breaches can happen outside of the four walls of a hospital.

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Aug 05 | Susan Morse

CMS increases wage index for rural hospitals

The rule increases new technology add-on payment from 50 to 65% for cases with high costs involving eligible new technologies.

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May 03 | Jeff Lagasse

CMS outlines comprehensive strategy to foster innovation for transformative medical technologies

The actions represent components of a strategy to address barriers to medical innovation in…

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May 03 | Susan Morse

Congressional Budget Office looks at impact of Medicare for All

Two primary concerns of a single-payer system are the methods it would use to pay providers and set their payment rates, both…

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Apr 30 | Healthcare Finance Staff

Focus on Precision Medicine

HIMSS Media during May will interview the experts, talk to thought leaders about the obstacles and opportunities precision medicine presents today.

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Apr 23 | Susan Morse

CMS proposes to pay for transformative IT

The change would ramp up add-on payments to hospitals that implement new tech and increase the wage index for rural and other qualifying hospitals.

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Mar 08 | Beth Jones Sanborn

CDC urges hospitals to step up their protections, protocols against staph infections

In 2017, more than 119,000 bloodstream staph infections occurred and 20,000 people died from them.…

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Mar 06 | Beth Jones Sanborn

Scott Gottlieb lauded for tough stance on tobacco and vaping, approval of new drugs at FDA

Policy experts and providers said his charge in the face of the tobacco industry and work to speed…

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Feb 20 | Jeff Lagasse

Reprocessing medical devices can result in significant savings for hospitals

Hospitals are nipping and tucking their supply chain spend by opting for half-price, reprocessed items like…

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