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Latest Featured Articles » Discount Doctors: Where Can You Find the Cheapest Care? My husband sees it all the time. Fillings for $5. Crowns for $250. Who wouldn't rather pay this than $100 or $700 for the procedures? Patients are shopping dentists to find the cheapest one. So are those needing surgery or rehab. » Study: Epocrates is Top Mobile App for Physicians on Tablets, Smartphones Epocrates is the top medical app among physicians on smartphones and tablets, according to a new study. Manhattan Research's "Taking the Pulse U.S. 2012"-- a study of technology adoption and behavior by physicians -- shows that more than half of the physicians using Epocrates on a smartphone, use it daily, according to a company statement. In addition, physicians are most likely to reference info about prescribed drugs over the smartphone during patient consults. » India's War on Drugs An intense battle is taking place in India over their government's proposal to cut back on the cost of drugs to its citizens. Major pharmaceutical companies both domestic and foreign, are fiercely opposed to the government's pending decision over administering a price cap. Parties in favor of the price reductions are health activists, the majority of India's citizens without health insurance, generic drug companies and even India's Controller General. » Stanford Researchers Encode Rewritable Memory into DNA After about three years of work and 750 design projects, researchers from Stanford University have successfully encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA. In fact, synthetic biologists from Stanford have managed to turn DNA into a form of rewritable memory, just like the solid-state memories in our computers. Sponsored By: ServiceMax Free guide -- learn how to improve field service efficiency and grow your business. You'll discover best practices for achieving "Best-in-Class" performance; 5 key steps to expand your business with optimized field service; case study showing how a leading manufacturer cut work order resolution time by 50%. Compliments of ServiceMax. Top Stories » OSI Systems' Spacelabs Healthcare Chosen for $3 Million Telemonitoring System by Illinois Hospital » Out with Anthem, In with Agilum » Large Peru Pharmacy Chooses LogFire's Cloud-Based Solution for Shipping » AMC Select App to Help Healthcare Workers Make Switch from Pagers to Smartphones Featured Resources » HIPAA: Healthcare Transformation to Electronic Communications » A Prescription for Privacy: What You Need To Know About Security Requirements for Electronic Health Records » Healthcare Interpreting Programs: Getting It Approved, Setting It Up, and Ensuring Quality Advertise With Us Learn more  |  Contact us Become a HealthTechZone columnist! Become a HealthTechZone columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of health technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the HealthTechZone Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask, group editorial director, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.   Featured Channels » Coordinated Care Management » Health Information Exchange » Medical Hardware » Medical Software

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