Medical spending growth has been relatively quiescent for the last few years. Especially as full implementation of the reform law nears, there is great anxiety about whether that slow growth…
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Telemedicine or telehealth has the potential to bring quality health care resources to patients in an efficient manner, but like many health care innovations, has gotten off to a slower…
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The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System issued a report called "Confronting Costs, Stabilizing U.S. Health Spending While Moving Toward a High Performance Health Care System", which…
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Many large employers may consider shifting more employees to part-time status as a result of the implementation of the reform law, according to a survey by ADP, and they may…
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Most people want to die at home, but few do. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines changes in place of death and use of…
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Like many large industries, health care has a lot of transactional activity--mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, buy-outs, etc. These are usually predicated on the creation of significant benefits for the surviving entity.…
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.