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3 Ways Obamacare Is Impacting Medical Tech Hiring

Like any other aspect of Obamacare, the tax on medical device sales is controversial. Implemented in January 2013, the legislation imposes a 2.3 percent excise tax on the sale of medical devices. Those who argue the tax should be repealed have predicted it will result in job cuts, declines in domestic hiring, and an increase […]

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Med tech startup takes $1M prize from Verizon for eye exam device

Two medical device companies won first and fifth prize Wednesday in the Verizon Powerful Answers contest. The co-founders of Smart Vision Labs Yaopeng Zhou and Marc Albanese won the first prize of $1 million in the healthcare category of the contest. They met in graduate school when they were building a tabletop version of an […]