Healthcare Matters

Shame on them.  

91 Are Charged With Fraud, Billing Millions to Medicare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Ninety-one people including doctors, nurses and other medical professionals were charged criminally after an investigation of Medicare fraud that involved $430 million in false billing in seven cities, officials said on Thursday. It was the government’s second big raid in recent months after a similar investigation in May involving $452 million in possible fraud in Medicare, the health program for the elderly and disabled…

The FDA means business.

FDA takes action against thousands of illegal Internet pharmacies

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in partnership with international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, took action this week against more than 4,100 Internet pharmacies that illegally sell potentially dangerous, unapproved drugs to consumers. Actions taken include civil and criminal charges, seizure of illegal products, and removal of offending websites…

Woah! This is quite the breakthrough.

Hope for Infertility Treatments: Scientists Make New Eggs from Mouse Stem Cells

Japanese researchers have produced mouse eggs from stem cells that bred healthy offspring, a breakthrough that may one day help treat human infertility. Researcher Mitinori Saitou and his team from Kyoto University in Japan used two different types of stem cells during their research: embryonic stem cells — a controversial technique since scientists must destroy embryos to cultivate them — and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are adult cells, such as skin cells, that are reprogrammed to an embryonic-like state…

From Spend Matters

Contract Management: A Simple Diagram Says it All

We’re bigger fans of prose here than fancy-schmancy consulting graphics. Even though many of us have had past careers as consultants, sometimes we think that people use pictures to tell words because they’d rather hide behind visual takeaways and storylines than go into the weeds at the level necessary to really educate, influence and inform…

From Spend Matters UK

Another Basware acquisition – Certipost – makes them Big in Belgium

Basware, the Finnish e-Invoicing, P2P and network solutions provider (and one of the largest firms globally in this market) has just announced the acquisition of the network and e-Invoicing business of leading Benelux operator Certipost. Certipost are a subsidiary of bpost, the rather fashionably named Belgian postal service. It looks like Certipost do a range of products, including for instance electronic identification – from their website…