News bites: Physician shortages, wired hospitals and more

Is the nation's dearth of primary care doctors the biggest threat to the healthcare reform law? asks the Washington Post.

U.S. cable companies are seeing a boom in medical broadband as the government mandates the digitization of medical records, Bloomberg reports.

Mitt Romney's effort to eliminate a list of mandatory health benefits when he was governor of Massachusetts was driven by cost, not moral objections to birth control, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Laws requiring health plans to cover contraception are nothing new, NPR reports.

Drugmakers seeking to get approval for generic versions of complex biologic drugs will have to prove interchangeability separately from and sequentially to biosimilarity - with interchangeability determinations requiring clinical studies - according to new FDA guidance, reports Inside Health Policy (subscription required).