Kevin Roche – Page 819 – Healthy Skeptic

Jan 25 2011

New York Times

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One-third of the nation’s physicians are over 65, and that proportion is expected to rise. As doctors in the baby boom generation reach 65, many are under increasing financial pressures that make them reluctant to retire

Jan 25 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Federal officials recovered $4 billion in taxpayer funds from fraud and prevention efforts in FY 2010, the highest amount ever

Jan 25 2011

Associated Press

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Senate Republicans want to box majority Democrats into allowing a health care repeal vote even if GOP lawmakers expect to be on the losing side.

Jan 25 2011

AHRQ Quality Study

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An unfortunate contributor to medical costs, as well as an obvious source of quality problems, are patient care errors. AHRQ releases the first results from a survey of medical offices…

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Jan 24 2011

Accenture

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Accenture: Secrets of Success on the EMR Journey to Meaningful Use – Leading Hospital CIOs Reveal Key Lessons Learned

Jan 24 2011

WHO

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WHO: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have great potential to address some of the challenges faced by both developed and developing countries

Jan 24 2011

Kaiser Health News

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House Republicans are already beginning work in committees to lop off and possibly replace some of the law’s individual provisions.

Jan 24 2011

New York Times

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Democrats and Republicans in the Senate waged a war of words on Sunday over efforts to force what would most likely be a symbolic vote on repealing the Obama administration’s health care law.

Jan 24 2011

eyeonfreedom.com

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The President’s new executive order says agencies must consider “equity, human dignity, fairness, and distributive impacts” as benefits of regulation.

Jan 24 2011

New York Times

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The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.

Jan 24 2011

next.gov

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Those are among the findings in a new report, “Secrets of Success on the EMR Journey to Meaningful Use: Leading Hospital CIOs Reveal Key Lessons Learned,” released Thursday by Accenture.

Jan 24 2011

NPR

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The new Republican chairmen of a powerful House committee and its investigative subcommittee want Obama administration officials to explain exactly how they’re implementing the health law.

Jan 24 2011

HealthLeader Media

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The medical home is a largely theoretical concept that envisions a location where patients can obtain their primary, preventive, and acute medical services at the same location and through the same physician.

Jan 24 2011

Reuters Physician Survey

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A survey of 3000 American physicians reveals frustration and a widespread and strong disbelief in the supposed positive effects of the reform law on either health care for patients or…

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Jan 21 2011

InformationWeek

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The EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals program will evaluate how installed EHR technology at hospitals measures up to the requirements outlined by the Department of Health and Human Services