Kevin Roche – Page 639 – Healthy Skeptic

May 01 2012

New York Times

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The growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some fuel for optimism about the federal government’s long-term fiscal performance.

Apr 30 2012

PR Newswire

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CR2, LLC announced the acquisition of CardioReady, a pioneer in Cardiac Emergency Response and Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Apr 30 2012

PE Hub

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Haemonetics Corporation is to acquire the business assets of the blood collection, filtration and processing product lines of Pall Corporation

Apr 30 2012

MedPageToday

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced several Affordable Care Act initiatives aimed at keeping more chronically ill patients at home for care.

Apr 30 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Executives began to worry about EHR’s independence when the firm was acquired in 2010 by UnitedHealth Group

Apr 30 2012

Fiscal Times

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Millions of consumers and small businesses will receive an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates from their health plans this summer

Apr 30 2012

New York Times

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Researchers found an astonishing 37 errors for every 100 paper prescriptions, versus around 7 per 100 for those who used e-prescribing software.

Apr 30 2012

Status of EHR Deployment

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Articles posted online in the journal Health Affairs provide a glimpse into the status of electronic medical record penetration in physician practices and hospitals. Progress is generally slow, especially among…

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Apr 27 2012

Xconomy.com

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Big Data, Big Biology, and the ‘Tipping Point’ in Quantified Health: Takeaways from Xconomy’s On-the-Record Dinner

Apr 27 2012

Fiscal Times

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The ACA includes funds to pay special bonuses to Medicare Advantage plans offering above-average quality of care. Instead, the Obama Administration is paying the bonuses to nearly all Advantage plans, including a majority that are rated just average.

Apr 27 2012

Bloomberg

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Allscripts Plunges After Chairman, Three Directors Leave

Apr 27 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Despite those blockbuster deals, the dollar value of M&A activity in the first quarter of this year dropped by 47% to $28.9 billion while the total number of deals increased by 9% to 274.

Apr 27 2012

2012 Potpourri XV

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Another tremendous edition of our Potpourri, featuring accountable care organization results, waste in our health system, self-referral costs, calculating hospital readmission rates and the benefits, if any, of telemonitoring frail…

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Apr 26 2012

Medpage Today

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Fueled in part by fewer complications, robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has surpassed open surgery as the predominant surgical approach to localized prostate cancer, analysis of a national database showed.

Apr 26 2012

New York Times

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A California representative is calling for an investigation into Accretive Health, one of the nation’s largest collectors of medical debt, for potentially violating a federal law