News tagged with payment
Post Office card error leaves Italians in the red: report
Nov 26, 2009 |
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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.
American Express takes aim at PayPal with Revolution
Nov 22, 2009 |
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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.
BMJ raises concerns over 'outlawed' gagging clauses in NHS contracts
Oct 28, 2009 |
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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.
Google developing payment platform for newspapers: Nieman
Sep 09, 2009 |
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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.
Indictment of card hacker unlikely to end thefts
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(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.
Prosecutors say man stole 130M credit card numbers
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(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 ...
PayPal outage frustrates merchants, consumers
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday.
Group says poker winnings are frozen
Jun 10, 2009 |
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(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.
Physicians can lead health care reform through payment and delivery system reforms
May 20, 2009 |
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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 ...
Medicare recipients see declines in continuity of care
Apr 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Health care reform should start with paying evidence-based financial incentives to doctors
Apr 20, 2009 |
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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, ...
From stress to financial mess: Study suggests acute stress affects financial decision making
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Nokia seeks gold in mobile payments startup Obopay
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(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.
Can payment and other innovations improve the quality and value of health care?
Jan 27, 2009 |
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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 ...
Survey finds widespread dissatisfaction with current health care payment system
Nov 03, 2008 |
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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 ...
