by Jill Hoffman | Jul 30, 2013 | Editorial
The first hospital in the United States owned and operated by a university was opened in a former professor’s house on the central campus of the University of Michigan in 1869. Surgical operations were performed in the upper lecture room until an operating room was...
by Jill Hoffman | Jun 26, 2013 | Medical Devices
When the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was signed into law in 2010, it contained a 2.3% excise tax on gross sales of medical devices. The tax applies to a wide range of products, from bedpans to the most advanced heart devices, as well as companies, from emerging...
by Jill Hoffman | Jun 11, 2013 | Editorial
Health information technology (health IT), or the exchange of health information in an electronic environment, allows the safe and secure sharing of health information as it passes between consumers, providers, insurers and government entities. Health IT has been on...
