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Aug 22 2012

InformationWeek

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Health IT’s Next Big Challenge: Comparative Effectiveness Research

Aug 22 2012

Fiscal Times

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Under Ohio’s new approach, almost 10 percent of the Medicaid payments to nursing homes will depend on factors including residents’ satisfaction, rates of medical complications and the number of nurses on staff.

Aug 22 2012

PR Newswire

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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 22 2012

Luminosity

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Lumosity, the leader in online brain training, today announced that it has raised $31.5 million in Series D financing.

Aug 22 2012

Designing Internet Health Applications

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Research published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research focuses on whether and why the use of online health applications improves patient empowerment and knowledge and if such improvement leads…

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Aug 21 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Now that the smoke has cleared from the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, what’s the upshot for financial leaders? It appears the only thing healthcare CFOs can count on is that they will have to slash costs.

Aug 21 2012

Redorbit

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Bolder Capital announced today that it has recently completed the acquisition of Monti Eligibility and Denial Solutions, Inc. and the Monti Group, Inc., collectively called MEDS . MEDS is an outsourced provider of patient eligibility, enrollment and revenue recovery services to hospitals and health systems.

Aug 21 2012

Reuters

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Consumer goods maker Church & Dwight Co Inc will buy privately held Avid Health for $650 million in cash to take advantage of the growing nutritional supplement market.

Aug 21 2012

Bloomberg

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With takeovers of managed care providers exceeding $14 billion in less than a year, Health Net Inc. and WellCare Health Plans Inc. are among the last remaining targets as aging baby boomers and the new health-care law boost demand.

Aug 21 2012

MarketWatch

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Insight Imaging, Inc. (“Insight”), based in Lake Forest, CA, and Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Inc. (“CDI”), based in Minneapolis, MN, two of the nation’s leading imaging providers, today announced plans to combine.

Aug 21 2012

Hospitals and ACOs

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The Commonwealth Fund releases an Issue Brief describing the readiness or lack thereof among hospitals participating in accountable care organizations. As might be expected, handling financial risk is one of…

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Aug 20 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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The average per capita cost of healthcare services grew at more than three times the rate of overall inflation for the 12-month period that ended in June

Aug 20 2012

Reuters

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Health insurer Aetna Inc said on Monday that it would buy rival Coventry Health Care Inc for $5.6 billion to increase its share of the fast-growing, U.S. government-backed Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Aug 20 2012

New York Times

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Before long, your doctor may be telling you to download two apps and call her in the morning.

Aug 20 2012

Fiscal Times

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In a battle to see who will pick up the cost of expanding Medicaid, hospitals are playing tug of war with financially distressed states that have chosen to opt out of the program.