Government
The American Society for Clinical Pathology is encouraging individuals working or living in Minnesota to help pass state legislation to license laboratory personnel. Both the Minnesota House and Senate are working on legislation to license...
A number of people have asked me recently if healthcare IT initiatives will receive any funding from the recently passed stimulus package. Here is a nice summary I saw recently: The $787 billion economic stimulus package includes $19...
Medicare frauds are nothing new and I can't say I am too surprised about this one featured on "American Greed" on CNBC. A Mohs surgeon in Sarasota, FL milked millions out of Medicare for thousands of "skin cancer"...
More news today with announcement of BioImagene obtaining 510(K) clearance for their iScan assessment of HER2. Abbreviated press release below. BioImagene, the leading provider of innovative digital pathology solutions, today announced...
Dr. Wes has a recent post on price-breaks for the uninsured (table courtesy of Dr. Wes). While the names may mean little to folks outside of greater Chicago - an interesting bill, the Illinois Fair Patient Billing Act, recently...
The complete report is available through the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT) web site at http://biennialreport.nih.gov. NIH has just released a report that summarizes NIH technology developments. Today, technology...
