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Articles in June, 1991 issue of Health Industry Today

• Abbott addresses material recyclability, disposability - Abbott Laboratories
• NAMES promotes ethics bill to close HME loopholes - National Association of Medical Equipment Suppliers, home medical equipment
• Vendors pay for hospitals' third-party EDI costs - electronic data interchange
• Incontinence products lead urology market - Market Intelligence Research Corp. study
• Carex dealers target three healthcare markets - Carex Health Care Products, lightweight folding walker and aluminum crutch
• Sharp PR helped contain sharps container accident - Illinois Masonic Medical Center - editorial
  by Donald E.L. Johnson
• Teletronics promotes Meta MV for use in children - Teletronics Pacing Systems Inc
• Bedside computing more widespread than thought - Inside Information Group survey of hospital usage
• Competition: coming soon to multiline pumps - intravenous pumps
  by Greg Borzo
• New telemetry device designed for cardiac rehab - Quinton Instrument Co.'s Q-Tel
• New anesthesia system extends MRI's usefulness - Excel MRI-Compatible, medical resonance imaging
• Pharmacia Deltec leads market - home infusion pumps
• Philips offers customers financing through Citicorp - Philips Medical Systems North America, Citicorp North America Inc
• PartStock to market parts distribution system - Associated Distribution Logistics
• Manufacturers provide overlay alternatives - therapeutic or specialty beds for hospitals
  by Sharyn Rosenbaum
• Interventional Vascular unveils guiding catheter - Sherpa
• Start-up company offers monitor/tracking system - Care Electronics Inc.'s Wanderer
• 17% of U.S. hospitals financially 'distressed.' - Health Care Investment Analysts Inc. report
• HIMA suggests changes to PPS for capital costs - Health Industry Manufacturers Association, prospective payment system
• Group purchasing will grow, industry to consolidate - Decision Resources Inc. report
• Establishing the true value of groups - group purchasing organizations
  by Teri L. Louden
• Crystal cholesterol test best for solo practitioners - Crystal Medical; disposable, fingerprick test
• Cancer, AIDS tests drive diagnostics market
• Price pressures changing orthopedic implant market
  by Greg Borzo
• Vendors see opportunity in helping labs adapt to CLIA - Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988
• HEDIC to issue RFPs for EDI network services - Health Care EDI Corp., requests for proposals, electronic data interchange
• Diatek ear thermometer to hospitals, alternate sites - Model 7000
• CPM devices distributor offers value-added program - continuous passive motion, Thera-Kinetics Inc