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FedEx pleaded not guilty to charges that the company illegally delivered controlled substances and prescription from online pharmacies to U.S. consumers without valid prescriptions, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The drug Sovaldi, manufactured by Foster City, Calif.-based Gilead Sciences, has garnered a lot of attention for its hefty price tag, coming in at $1,000 per pill, or up to $84,000 for a full course of hepatitis C treatment.
CIOs' roles have expanded far beyond being simply the head of IT. CIOs are now an increasingly indispensible member of the C-suite, a leader relied upon to both lead hospitals' swelling IT departments as well as help their organizations find…
In a letter to the editor in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, Brian Biesman, MD, director of the Nashville (Tenn.) Centre for Laser and Facial Surgery, and Neelam Patel of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, alert physicians to…
In the second quarter of 2014, health IT companies raised $1.8 billion in venture capital over 161 deals, more than double the amount raised in the first quarter of this year and the first time the sector has raised more than…
The time to market for medical devices can be a lengthy commercialization process, but 3-D printing may help quicken the timeline, according to a Plastics Today report.
Workgroups within the Senate finance and health subcommittees have plans to discuss the meaningful use program with the goal of providing feedback and recommendations to the ONC as the agency prepares for stage 3, according to a report in Politico.
Representatives from several industry groups aired their grievances about the new clinical document exchange standards at a recent meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee's Standards and Implementation workgroup.
Worries about privacy or security may keep some patients from being honest about their medical history when they see their physician entering the information into a computer, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics…