Kevin Roche – Page 621 – Healthy Skeptic

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

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.