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Wallstrip: Micrus Endovascular Corp. (MEND)
Micrus Endovascular Corp. is in the business of prolonging life, and overseas markets appear to be just what the doctor ordered.
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Videos 2008-07-14
Zix Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Your first question comes from the line of Jon Hickman with MDB Capital. Please proceed. Jon Hickman – MDB Capital Hello, can you hear me? Susan Conner Yes. Rick Spurr Yes. Jon Hickman – MDB Capital I was wondering if you could talk about your...
Tags: Attrition, Zix Corp., Doctor, Call Transcript, Earnings, Question, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-10-27
GSK CEO Andrew Witty Joins the Retreat on Pharma Transparency
GlaxoSmithKline will become the latest company to publish all its payments to doctors, and those payments will be capped at $150,000 a year, CEO Andrew Witty said. GSK previously opposed doctor-cash transparency. The move -- a stark U-turn -- is a mirror image of the one performed by Eli Lilly...
Tags: Payment, Doctor, CEO, GSK, Operational Accounting, Finance, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2008-10-23
Consumer-Directed Care's Achilles Heel
Despite all the hype about consumer-directed care and the ability of financially motivated patients to make good health-care buying decisions, it’s long been known that most consumers don’t pay attention to the increasing amount of web-based information about doctors and hospitals. A new study by the Center for Studying Health...
Tags: Patient, Doctor, Health Care, Achilles Heel, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2008-12-04
Incentives At Work: E-Prescriptions On the Rise
E-prescribing is one of those no-brainers that has nevertheless taken forever to attain any sort of momentum in U.S. healthcare. But there finally appears to be some good news on that front, thanks to new Medicare incentives that appear to have pushed many doctors to climb on the bandwagon. by...
Tags: Incentive, Medicare, Doctor, E-prescribing, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Sales, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-12-16
Bush Administration Rule Stops Rape Victims Getting Plan B "Morning After" Pill
A federal rule set to go into affect Jan. 18 will allow doctors and hospitals to withhold the Plan B "morning after" pill from rape victims if they so choose. The rule is designed to protect medical staff whose religious beliefs put even theoretical foetuses ahead of the needs of...
Tags: Doctor, Rule, Bush Administration, Plan B, Gender And Diversity, Federal Government, Human Resources, Government, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2008-12-22
Would You Sell a Product that Secretly Kills?
Imagine you could make big commissions selling a product that might kill your customers.  Not a product like cigarettes or extreme sports, where customers know what they're getting into.  In this case, the customers would be so ignorant that, even as they're dying, they'll thank you for doing a good...
Tags: Hospital, Doctor, Customer, Health Care, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Sales, Human Resources, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-06-09
EMR Fear and Loathing at the American Medical Association
If some of the paranoia about health IT that I heard last week at the American Medical Association annual meeting really is representative of practicing physicians -- and not just the protectionist Medical Establishment -- this country is in trouble. As much as the AMA purports to...
Tags: Incentive, Physician, Information Technology, Medicare, Doctor, American Medical Association, Stimulus, AMA, Healthcare, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management, Neil Versel
Blog posts 2009-06-22
Doctors May Not All Be Big Pharma's Friends in Healthcare Reform Debate
As the battle over healthcare reform rages in Washington, some of the groups that claim to speak for drug companies and doctors are instead annoying each other: by Jim Edwards
Tags: Doctor, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-07-13
AZ Call Notes Expose Secret Life of Seroquel Reps ... And It's Mostly Scandal-Free
The release of AstraZeneca's sales rep call notes in the Seroquel litigation is mostly good news for the company. Bloomberg highlighted some grim anecdotes in its coverage -- one rep told a doctor that Seroquel did not cause diabetes and another offered doctors $1,500 "grants" -- but the majority of...
Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Doctor, Sales Strategy, Litigation, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Sales, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-09-23
Health Care Still Hiring
In spite of the massive ongoing economic crisis currently affecting the entire world, Priya David reports on a source of optimism in the economy, as health care-related employers are actively seeking workers.
Tags: Hiring, Health Care, MoneyWatch, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Evening, Saturday, David, Hospital, Blue, Cross, Insurance, HMO, Medic, Medical, Technician, Pharmacy, Drugs, Rx, Nurse, Doctor, Work, Employment, Business, Economy, Recession
Videos 2009-05-09
Obama's Take on Health Care
President Barack Obama talks with CBS News about one key change in his position on health care reform -- and about how to help doctors make better decisions.
Tags: Health Care, MoneyWatch, Obama, Vertical Industries, Healthcare Reform, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Evening, U.S., Health, Insurance, LaPook, President, Politics, White House, Reform, Treatment, Patient, Hospital, Doctor
Videos 2009-07-16
Obama Lobbies for Health Care
Amidst a series of criticisms concerning his approach to health care reform, President Obama will speak to Congress next week to detail his reform agenda. Nancy Cordes reports.
Tags: Health Care, MoneyWatch, Vertical Industries, Healthcare Reform, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, cbsepisode, Obama, Insurance, Medical, Treatment, Doctor, Patient, Hospital, Medication, Coverage, Unemployed, Town Hall, Economy, Recession, Republican, Conservative, U.S., HMO
Videos 2009-09-03
When Nurses Earn More Than Doctors
Nurses have long chafed at a perceived "status gap" with doctors, and so in that sense at least, here's some good news: Some specialist nurses now earn more than primary-care doctors. This tidbit comes to us courtesy of Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, a leading physician-recruitment firm, whose...
Tags: Doctor, Family Physician, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-06-18
Zimmer Blinks First on Physician Payments
Is the ethical backlash against drug and medical-device company payments to doctors finally changing behavior in the industry's executive suites? That's certainly the impression you'd get from the announcement last week by Zimmer Holdings, a major manufacturer of hip, knee and spinal implants that declared it was...
Tags: Payment, Physician, Doctor, Zimmer, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-04-21
Conceptus, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question will come from the line of Shawn Fitz with Stephens. Shawn Fitz – Stephens On the quarter and especially on the profitability, just a question relating to some of your physician training trends. I guess we were surprised by how robust...
Tags: Physician, Doctor, Call Transcript, Earnings, Conceptus Inc., Utilization Rate, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-11-16
Choosing a Doctor: A Guide for People With Medicare
Choosing a doctor is an important decision. Doctors differ in many ways, and not all doctors give the same quality of care. Patients who talk freely with their doctors and help to make decisions are often happier with their care. Giving good quality health care means doing the right thing,...
Tags: Medicare, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Doctor, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2004-10-01
Getting a Second Opinion Before Surgery: Your Choices and Medicare Coverage
A doctor might tell people that they need surgery for a health problem that isn't an emergency. This means that the surgery doesn't have to be done right away. They have time to talk with their doctor and decide what's best for them. Deciding what is best for them could...
Tags: Medicare, Doctor, Health Care, Surgery, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2004-06-01
Colposcopy
A colposcopy is a way your doctor can examine people's genitals, vagina and cervix closely. A colposcope is an instrument that shines a light on the cervix and magnifies the view for their doctor. At the beginning of the exam, they lie back and place their feet in the stirrups...
Tags: American Academy Of Family Physicians, Doctor, Colposcopy, Colposcope
White papers 2004-09-01
DynaCT: Angiographic Computed Tomography Revolutionizes Interventional Radiology
Late in September 2004, a 76-year-old man from Houston, Texas, who was otherwise feeling healthy and fit, had been experiencing dizziness for nearly a month when he suddenly collapsed in his home. He was rushed by ambulance to the second floor of the Methodist Hospital in Houston, to the endovascular...
Tags: Houston, Siemens AG, Doctor, Team Management, Management
Case studies 2004-12-07
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