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A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news178444022.html Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:31 EST news178444022 With its deal to buy Revolution Money, American Express is taking aim at the growing market for online and alternative payments, in a challenge to recognized leader PayPal, analysts say. http://www.physorg.com/news178098069.html Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:42:08 EST news178098069 Despite government outlawing of gagging clauses in NHS contracts, new evidence published in the British Medical Journal today reveals how some trusts have continued to use them. http://www.physorg.com/news175936811.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:27:28 EST news175936811 Internet giant Google is developing a payment platform for newspapers that would allow them to charge for content online, according to a report on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171743236.html Technology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:27:50 EST news171743236 (AP) -- This week's indictment of a hacker believed responsible for the biggest retail-store data breaches in U.S. history doesn't necessarily make shoppers safer from having their credit card numbers plundered. http://www.physorg.com/news169835746.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:36:57 EST news169835746 (AP) -- Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States, accusing the one-time government informant of swiping 130 million accounts on top of 40 million he stole previously. http://www.physorg.com/news169752426.html Technology Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:28:28 EST news169752426 (AP) -- PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news168613437.html Technology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:40:02 EST news168613437 (AP) -- An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. http://www.physorg.com/news163824529.html Technology Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:49:02 EST news163824529 Physicians can and should play a leading role in achieving health care reform by working towards comprehensive reform of the way health care is paid for and delivered, helping achieve a guaranteed 1.5 percent annual savings in health care costs that would pay for covering all Americans, according to a New England Journal of Medicine Perspective piece published online today. http://www.physorg.com/news162059041.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 May 2009 17:25:23 EST news162059041 According to a study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, elderly Medicare recipients transitioning from outpatient to hospital settings were more likely to experience lapses in continuity of care in 2006 than 1996. The researchers ascribe part of the reduction in continuity of care to the increasing use of hospitalists, physicians who specialize in the care of hospitalized patients. http://www.physorg.com/news159648245.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:44:40 EST news159648245 Healthcare Reform should start with "evidence-based reimbursement", structuring physician payment incentives around existing empirical evidence of clinical benefit, which would improve quality and reduce the cost of healthcare, says a commentary written by two cardiologists and published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://www.physorg.com/news159465899.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:05:34 EST news159465899 It is not surprising that as our economy continues its freefall, we are feeling increasingly more stressed and worried. Many of us are feeling extreme unease about the security of our jobs and being able to make our next mortgage payment. However, according to a new report in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, stress could make our financial troubles even worse. http://www.physorg.com/news157814244.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:17:53 EST news157814244 (AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is making a large investment in a California-based startup that wants to make the mobile phone the credit card of the developing world. http://www.physorg.com/news157187127.html Technology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:05:50 EST news157187127 A paramount topic at the moment is value in health care: What should we pay for and how much? Resources aren't unlimited, and desires or demands for health care should be balanced against various realities--including the effectiveness of care or the desire for other goods and services. Especially in a depressed economy, questions about value in health care may well be at the center of coming health reform debates. http://www.physorg.com/news152263516.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:25:42 EST news152263516 Leaders in health care and health care policy feel strongly that the way we pay for health care in the U.S. must be fundamentally reformed. The latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey reports that more than two-thirds (69%) of respondents expressed strong dissatisfaction with the current system, which is generally based on "fee-for-service" payment, saying the current system is not effective in encouraging high quality and efficient care. http://www.physorg.com/news144946516.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:55:16 EST news144946516 New research by the University of Warwick reveals that many credit card customers become fixated on the level of minimum payments given on credit card bills. The mere presence of a minimum payment is enough to reduce the actual amount many people choose to pay on their bills, leading to further interest payments. http://www.physorg.com/news142517733.html Other Sciences Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:15:33 EST news142517733