Kevin Roche – Page 712 – Healthy Skeptic

Sep 13 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Today, hospitals and doctors use a system of about 18,000 codes to describe medical services in bills they send to insurers. A new federally mandated version will expand the number to around 140,000

Sep 13 2011

NPR.org

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Federal officials call it “the next big step” in cardiovascular prevention. There’s lots of evidence it’s an achievable goal.

Sep 13 2011

EMR and HIPAA

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FitBit – The sexual activity of many of the users of the company’s tracker and online platform can be found in Google Search results

Sep 13 2011

Drugs.com

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ImpactRx, a pioneer in measuring the impact of promotion on physician prescribing behavior, announced today that it has acquired 100% of TargetRx, Inc., a leading provider of insight into the drivers of physician behavior for pharmaceutical companies

Sep 13 2011

Physician Fees and National Health Spending

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The evidence continues to pile up that higher provider unit costs in the United States are the primary driver of our much higher than average per capita national health spending.…

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Sep 12 2011

Wall Street Journal

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WellPoint Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are set to announce a deal on Monday for the health insurer to use the Watson technology, the first time the high-profile project will result in a commercial application.

Sep 12 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The nation’s system for training physicians is in dramatic need of a complete overhaul to adequately provide future patient care

Sep 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Seeking The Best Place For Long-Term Care? Head North

Sep 12 2011

LA Times

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Medicare could save billions of dollars if people who were pre-diabetic or at risk for cardiovascular disease took part in community-based weight-loss programs, a study finds

Sep 12 2011

New York Times

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Americans seem to be paying the price for the unrelenting rise in health care costs in this country, according to several studies being published on Thursday in Health Affairs, an academic journal.

Sep 12 2011

Search Costs in the Health Insurance Market

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A new paper from the National Bureau of Economics focuses on whether there are aspects of the health insurance market that add to premiums by creating significant inefficiencies in finding…

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Sep 11 2011

CMIO.net

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A survey results suggest that the initial meaningful use threshold for hospitals is probably too low to have a significant impact on deaths from heart failure and heart attack among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.

Sep 09 2011

Bloomberg

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Florida’s plan to outsource health care in the third-largest U.S. prison system to save $30 million has stalled

Sep 09 2011

Bloomberg

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The three-judge panel said yesterday it didn’t yet have the power to consider a challenge to the law’s requirement that Americans

Sep 09 2011

Boston.com

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The EarlySense system uses motion sensors placed underneath hospital beds to track patients’ vital signs, such as heart and respiratory rates, and provide caregivers with data-driven graphs and charts to enhance preventative care.