Transparency is here to stay in the healthcare sector. As Jaimy Lee discovers, that reality is being seen in industry efforts ranging from communicating on physician payments to becoming thought leaders. 

Medtronic executives said in June 2010 that the multi-billion-dollar medical device company would voluntarily start disclosing payments it made to physicians.

The announcement, made in an exclusive in The Wall Street Journal, was the external launch of an integrated internal program that has transformed how the company operates across each of ...