Bill Keep has been researching and participating in prosecutions of pyramid scheme businesses since the 1990s, when he was faculty at the University of Kentucky. Keep and Peter Vander Nat, an economist at the Federal Trade Commission, are the authors of the only academic paper published about mathematically identifying pyramid schemes.The paper was referenced in ...
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Meridian creates institute to foster collaboration
“We’ve taken the interdisciplinary approach already, and we have about 80 percent of our staff in collaboration, but with the advent of health care reform, all of sudden we have to do more than just be comprehensive,” Meridian President John K. Lloyd said. “We’re really going to another level with this institute, because now we’re ...
Read More »Summit Medical Group joins Horizon network
“Horizon is committed to working with health care leaders like Summit Medical Group to transform the delivery of health care to enhance the patient experience, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce unnecessary health costs for our members,” said Jim Albano, vice president of network management for Horizon Healthcare Innovations. “We welcome Summit Medical Group to our ...
Read More »N.J. awards 1M to South Jersey hospitals group to build digital network
Richard Wheatley, chief information officer of Cape Regional Medical Center — which formed the nonprofit NJSHINE organization with South Jersey Healthcare and Shore Medical Center — said the group’s efforts to supply hospitals, physicians, nursing homes and other providers in South Jersey with immediate access to patient data will reduce the need for unnecessary tests, ...
Read More »Quest expands Mass. presence with additional lab space
Quest announced Wednesday it completed the acquisition of the UMass Memorial Medical Center clinical outreach laboratory, in Worcester, Mass., and announced the acquisition of the medical center’s anatomic pathology outreach lab. Quest also signed a lease for 200,000 square feet in Marlborough, Mass., for a new state-of-the-art clinical lab, which eventually will house the UMass ...
Read More »Physicians get one-year reprieve on Medicare cuts
One of the “fixes” included in the budget deal pushes back Medicare payment cuts to physicians by one year. If a deal had not been reached, docs would see their reimbursement decreased by 27 percent beginning this year.Raymond Saputelli, executive vice president of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians, said he’s really not sure ...
Read More »IT spending up overall, but lags for pharma
Corporate investment in information technology software and services across the United States grew in 2012, although spending was down in the pharmaceutical sector, according to a survey by Montvale-based Data Inc.
Read More »Novartis buys Morris Plains drug manufacturing site in 43M deal
Dendreon Corp. today announced the sale of a 173,100-square-foot immunotherapy manufacturing facility to Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. for $43 million in cash.
Read More »Rutgers recruits top researcher to head Center for Integrative Proteomics Research
In the first major academic appointment made by Rutgers University since the school's boards approved integrating with UMDNJ the school recruited a top health care researcher to bolster the school's health care portfolio.
Read More »N.J. CEO leads study to reduce costs of home health care
Though he's less than a year into his role as the head of New Jersey's largest home health care provider, Dr. Steven Landers has been chosen to lead a national research alliance of for-profit, not-for-profit and academic home health care stakeholders that will study ways to reduce the costs and improve the quality of care delivered at patients'...
Read More »Christie vetoes bill to create state-run health insurance exchange
Gov. Chris Christie this afternoon vetoed legislation to establish a state-run health insurance exchange in New Jersey, citing a lack of information from the federal government on all options provided to states in the Affordable Care Act.
Read More »Pharma companies raise 11M for Sandy relief effort
In a statement, Dean J. Paranicas, president of the pharma trade group HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, called the companies’ work “swift, decisive and comprehensive.”
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