Kevin Roche – Page 606 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 24 2012

Bloomberg

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LabCorp Seen Luring Buyout Before Health-Care Revamp

Aug 24 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Final MU Stage 2 Rules Released

Aug 24 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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For physicians, data sharing with the government is becoming essential and will impact how they get paid, receive bonuses or are penalized. While the data collection process is crucial, Niall Berman, director of the CMS Office of Information Products and Analysis, concedes it’s fraught with uncertainty among providers

Aug 24 2012

InformationWeek

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Meeting Stage 1 standards for Meaningful Use of electronic health records (EHRs) can help hospitals achieve measurable gains in quality of care, but higher levels of functionality might actually lead to worse clinical outcomes, a new study from Dartmouth College suggests.

Aug 24 2012

PRNewswire

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Leica Biosystems announced that an affiliate has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aperio, a leading provider of ePathology solutions.

Aug 24 2012

MarketWatch

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Roper Industries, Inc. today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Sunquest Information Systems for approximately $1.415 billion

Aug 24 2012

Fiscal Times

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Nearly one in four of those polled in the 2012 Open Enrollment Survey of the Aflac WorkForces Report say they chose the wrong level of insurance coverage, or benefit options they didn’t need.

Aug 24 2012

2012 Potpourri XXVII

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Yet another brilliant collection of health care data points, including use of gene profiling tests to guide breast cancer care, 30-day mortality models for stroke performance, hospital medication administration errors,…

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Aug 23 2012

Reuters

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The Republican chairman of a House of Representatives investigatory panel sought documents on Wednesday from the Internal Revenue Service in a battle with the White House over the Democrats’ controversial healthcare law.

Aug 23 2012

Bloomberg

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Royal Philips Electronics NV will start selling a robot-assisted medical system to treat obstructed coronary arteries as it seeks to advance its lead in the booming market for image-guided intervention therapy

Aug 23 2012

Bizjournals.com

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The American Hospital Association has asked Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, for clarification on Medicaid expansion.

Aug 23 2012

The Hill

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The four-year project will be administered by the Medicare agency’s Innovation Center, a creation of the 2010 healthcare law that seeks to reduce costs and improve healthcare delivery.

Aug 23 2012

Early Hospital Readmission Experience

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The first year of experience with Medicare's readmission program is in and Kaiser has done an initial analysis of the results. A large number of hospitals will be penalized, mostly…

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Aug 22 2012

New York Times

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If we must ration our care to hold down costs in the future, how can we do it in a fair, efficient and transparent way?

Aug 22 2012

Reuters

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A U.S. health panel may soon make HIV testing as standard a practice as checking cholesterol levels, a move that would fundamentally change how the virus is detected and treated