Few healthcare sectors bemoan Trump's rejection of TPP trade deal.

The spurned TPP had few supporters in healthcare. Some groups said the intellectual property provisions were too strong, while others contended they weren't strong enough.

Trump wants to thin federal regulations, and the healthcare industry would love to help.

Trump's vow to reduce the regulatory burden will be complicated by obligations to carry out the requirements of complex laws like MACRA and the 21st Century Cures Act.

Trump's immigration ban puts a damper on Match Day.

There's little information on how hospitals, doctors and patients make delivery decisions, which could help drop related healthcare costs and our nation's high C-section rate.

Using caution with copy and paste.

Copy-and-pasting safely. Implement mechanisms that clearly identify copy-and-pasted content and offer data on the source of the text. Train staff on when it's safe to copy and when it's important to manually replicate text. Monitor copy-and-paste use among your staff and warn staff who may be abusing the functionality.

Abbott-St. Jude merger gives providers what they want: fewer vendors.

The Abbott-St. Jude merger will help hospitals consolidate vendor relationships, but it has the potential to lead to higher supply costs in the long term.

First impressions matter most for millennials.

If you think keeping millennials from job-hopping is hard, try keeping them tied to your provider network if you've got old equipment, ratty gowns and long appointment wait times.

PBMs skip insurers in new direct-to-consumer deals.

"The healthcare supply chain is very complicated, and it's wild that in the USA you can pay hundreds of dollars and assume you're getting the lowest negotiated price, even though that's not the case.

'Repealing the medical device tax is important for the industry'.

From user fees and the medical device tax to increased worries about cyberattacks, 2017 is shaping up to be a busy year for the medical device industry. Having just completed his two-year term as Advanced Medical Technology Association board chairman, Vincent Forlenza is bullish on the industry's ability to tackle these priority issues. As CEO of Becton, Dickinson and Co., Forlenza supports the current iteration of medical device user-fee amendments in front of Congress. He also said the industry will continue to push for repealing the Affordable Care Act's medical device tax, either as part of full replacement bill or a stand- alone measure. Forlenza recently sat down with Modern Healthcare's Adam Rubenfire to talk about his tenure as AdvaMed chair and how the industry can support customers in a changing healthcare environment. The following is an edited transcript.

Keeping an eye on at-risk patients remotely.

Sitter pay ranges from $11 to $40 an hour, while the cost to use AvaSure is under $3 an hour per patient, Brad Playford said.