Kevin Roche – Page 626 – Healthy Skeptic

Jun 15 2012

2012 Potpourri XX

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Our Potpourri resumes, with information on consumer trust of insurers and providers, consumer use of online health information, price transparency in health care, imaging rates in integrated health care systems…

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Jun 14 2012

InformationWeek

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Regional health information exchanges team up with IBM and other IT vendors to build the massive Statewide Health Information Network of New York.

Jun 14 2012

TechnologyReview

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Many parents have experienced the angst of a crying baby with an ear infection. Some 30 million medical visits in the U.S. alone are due to pediatric ear infections each year. A startup called CellScope has developed a device that could make such visits unnecessary.

Jun 14 2012

SFGate.com

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Hospital units specifically tailored to care for elderly patients could cut national health care costs by up to $6 billion annually, according to a new UCSF study.

Jun 14 2012

Bloomberg

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The board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, increased premiums it charges retirees for health-care insurance by 9.6 percent.

Jun 14 2012

Bloomberg

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If the Supreme Court decides to strike down the health-care law’s requirement that almost all Americans have health insurance by 2014, it could translate to cutting a “few hundred billion dollars” from projected spending

Jun 14 2012

National Health Spending Projections

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The latest projection on national health spending from the CMS Office of the Actuary is out and published in Health Affairs. It suggests that the very modest reduction in growth…

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Jun 13 2012

PE Hub

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Norwest Equity Partners announced that it has acquired Pentech Holdings, Inc. Pentec is a leading national provider of specialty infusion services to patients who require access to complex pharmaceutical products and services outside of the hospital setting.

Jun 13 2012

PE Hub

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Norwest Equity Partners, a leading middle market investment firm, announced today that it has made a $50 million equity investment in GoHealth, a Chicago-based technology company.

Jun 13 2012

Bloomberg

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An aging population, improving economy and President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul will push spending on medical services to almost 20 percent of U.S. gross domestic product by 2021, the government projected.

Jun 13 2012

Wall Street Journal

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On Friday House Republicans released more documents that expose the collusion between the health-care industry and the White House that produced ObamaCare

Jun 13 2012

PE Hub

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Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market buyout and growth equity firm, today announced the closing of a majority equity investment in Hometown Urgent Care, a leading provider of urgent care medical services. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Jun 13 2012

PR Newswire

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The Wellness Network, owner of The Patient Channel and The Newborn Channel, today announced that it has acquired HealthStyle Press. HealthStyle Press publishes America’s Health Guides™

Jun 13 2012

Wellness Lessons From Germany

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Germany has encouraged wellness programs in a manner similar to the US. A new report from the Commonwealth Fund discusses results from the country's efforts and draws lessons that may…

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Jun 13 2012

Marketplace.org

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If you said insurance companies or the government, you’re only half right. Because the prices your insurance company pays are based on a set of values listed in a phone-book sized directory of billing codes.