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I get a surprising number of inquiries from startups in the business of needles: Disposing of them, how to avoid getting punctured, how to make them less painful for children, and other concepts including doing away with them completely. See: Sharps ...
Hi All. I was wondering if anyone can point me to documentation that says it is either legal or not to collect a credit card from a patient with insurance or medicaid for a deductible at the time of "purchase" with insurance to cover a remaining bala...
We had a discussion, "Got a $10-million idea? Who cares!" at nearly two years ago. At the time I asked a panel of VCs, "What about the guy who has the $10 or $20 million idea, where does he go?" Serial entrepreneur Danny Sachs answered, "Pick another...
I suspect the end of Obamacare (how will that unravel?) and the medical device tax going away. What do you foresee? Peg Graham Improving the Caregiving Experience, Chair of the YANA Health Forum Also becoming clear that there will be a major challeng...
This man wants to receive the first human head transplant. http://medgroup.biz/new-head I don't even know where to begin with this one. Is this ethical? And the broader question, how much of you could we replace (prosthetics, major organs) and still ...
Three bullet points: • CEO previously said, company was "in a very good place to make this a sustainable program." http://ow.ly/XEzL303rEKv • This is a response to Humana merger ligitation: http://ow.ly/q1J2303rEG2 • Aetna CEO Received $27.9M In 2015...
Uber owns zero vehicles but has 150,000 drivers in the US alone. Airbnb owns zero rooms but has 650,000 available for rent. I was at a conference a few months back where the speaker insisted this type of disintermediation will find its way to healthc...
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Life science companies have paid multi-billion-dollar fines resulting from non-compliant promotion. FDA requires companies to have a system in place to ensure that their promotions meet FDA expectations. Big device companies have an internal Promotio...
Dr. Bill Andrews, CEO of Sierra Sciences, and Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva Sciences, discussed "A Cure for Aging?" at this year's 10x Medical Device Conference. Here are the entire video, slides, and transcript: http://medgroup.biz/Cure-for-Aging. It'...
