Kevin Roche – Page 792 – Healthy Skeptic

May 27 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The Patient Protection Checklist bill, which requires Nevada hospitals and other medical facilities to develop state-mandated patient safety checklists, was signed into law on Wednesday.

May 27 2011

Medpage Today

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The House of Representatives voted 234 to 185 Wednesday to eliminate $230 million in funding allocated for residency training of primary care physicians at community health centers.

May 27 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Once CMMI and Medicare get through the challenge of writing rules for ACOs, maybe then they can begin to focus a bit more on true delivery system innovation,

May 27 2011

Bloomberg

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The U.S. government has paid more than $158.3 million to hospitals and doctors this year to encourage adoption of electronic health records

May 27 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Republicans are being portrayed as Medicare Grinches, but ObamaCare already has seniors’ health care slated for draconian cuts.

May 27 2011

2011 Potpourri XXI

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Our Memorial Day Potpourri, celebrating health information such as the growth of high-deductible plans, physician starting salaries, benefit design for high-cost conditions, why emergency room physicians order tests, the use…

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May 26 2011

Bizjournals.com

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MBF Healthcare Partners has merged its Omni Home Care, a home health care provider based in Coral Springs, with SunCrest Healthcare.

May 26 2011

New York Times

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The Obama administration is raising serious objections to a new Indiana law that cuts off state and federal money for Planned Parenthood clinics providing health care to low-income women on Medicaid.

May 26 2011

PBS.org

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Seven influential Republican senators wrote a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Medicare Chief Dr. Don Berwick on Tuesday demanding that the proposed ACO rules be withdrawn.

May 26 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens said Wednesday they will collaborate on population-based research and jointly develop protocols to improve outcomes of patients with chronic diseases,

May 26 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Specialty physicians earned a median first-year guaranteed salary of $258,677 in multispecialty practices and $240,596 in single-specialty practices, while primary care physicians received a median first-year guaranteed salary of $165,000 in multispecialty practices and $172,400 in single specialty practices

May 26 2011

Miami Herald

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Yes, there’s a doctor in the house: Medical home visits grow

May 26 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Seventy-five percent of physicians in the United States have purchased an Apple mobile device such as an iPad, iPhone, or iPod, according to a Manhattan Research survey of 2,041 physicians during the first quarter of 2011.

May 26 2011

AP News

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IBM’s Watson computer system for work as a medical tool

May 26 2011

Medicare Trust Funds Alternative Scenario

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As noted in yesterday's post, the Trustees of the Medicare Hospital and Supplementary Funds recognized the inadequacy of the official projections of Medicare's financial condition, and therefore had an alternative,…

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