An increasing number of healthcare companies are being fined for hiring people on U.S. government exclusion lists as HHS' Office of Inspector General steps up its monitoring of hiring.
Fines totaling $9 million were levied in 2014 against 75 healthcare companies, according to ProviderTrust, a company that offers exclusion list monitoring software and services. That's up from 2013's $3.5 million in fines that hit 45 companies.
ABPathfinder, a cloud-based tool to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of autism therapy, is pleased to announce a significant Series A investment by FCA Venture Partners, a Nashville-based healthcare venture capital firm. These funds will be used to fund continued growth activities.
Read MoreThese leftovers of past lab experiments can languish for years, frozen and forgotten. Now a Boston company called Kerafast Inc. is helping institutions clean out their freezers and reuse biological materials for new research through an online marketplace, a sort of Craigslist for biologists.
Read MoreStudioNow, the leader in providing scalable solutions for video content creation, announced today that Bluwave Productions, which operates one of the country’s largest video field production networks, is joining StudioNow. Effective October 20, Bluwave Productions, which supports Comcast Spotlight and other clients in 22 markets in the Southeast from its base in Jacksonville, FL, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of StudioNow.
Read MoreThe partnership brings edo’s data-driven marketing platform to Visa-branded credit and debit cards across Europe. edo empowers marketers to target consumers based on their spending behavior with instantly-redeemable offers available directly on participating bankcards and mobile devices.
Read More"This release reaffirms our commitment to providing innovative eSource solutions that help our customers streamline clinical development from Start to Submit," said Ed Seguine, CEO of Clinical Ink. "Intuitively designed, SureSource DTT automatically maps source data to SDTM to significantly reduce the time and resources required to prepare for FDA submission. SureSource DTT will also simplify third-party system integration and validation by handling system-dependent integration variables more transparently."
Read MoreROi (Resource Optimization & Innovation), a recognized leader in health care supply chain management, and Procured Health, a provider of innovative hospital supply chain solutions, today announced an agreement focused on empowering hospitals to better control their medical supply costs. The agreement means ROi’s member hospitals will have access to integrate Procured Health’s IntelligencePRO and EvaluationPRO into their clinically based product evaluation and selection.
Read MoreEntrada, a Nashville-based mobile health technology company, was named to the prestigious Inc. 500 list for 2014. Entrada was recognized as the fastest growing privately held company in Tennessee and number 281 nationally, based on revenue growth over three years. Entrada posted an impressive 1,628% revenue growth rate during that time period and continues to grow at a strong pace.
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