Kevin Roche – Page 837 – Healthy Skeptic

Nov 29 2010

PR Newswire

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Thomson Reuters announced that it has acquired GeneGo, a leading provider of biology and disease information, analytics, and decision support solutions for pharmaceutical research and development.

Nov 29 2010

New York Times

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Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious

Nov 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Spurred by incentives in the federal health-overhaul law, hospitals and doctors around the country are beginning to create new entities that aim to provide more efficient health care.

Nov 29 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Replace The Tattered Medicaid Long-Term Care Safety Net

Nov 26 2010

PBS Frontline

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PBS Frontline has kicked off a series called “Facing Death,” which explores the way Americans die, issues around extending life or prolonging death, uncertainty, talking about the end of life and modern medicine’s trade off

Nov 26 2010

npr.org

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Obama, Insurers Spar Over Rising Health Insurance Costs

Nov 26 2010

nextgov.com

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A new online portal where patients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics can see their electronic medical records is proving popular, reducing calls to doctors’ offices and streamlining responses to patients’ question

Nov 26 2010

Washington Post

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Doctors across the country are being forced to shift away from Medicare toward higher-paying, privately insured or self-paying patients in response to years of penny-pinching by Congress.

Nov 26 2010

medpage

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Half of all cases of invasive colorectal cancer diagnosed in the U.S. among people older than 50 continue to be diagnosed at a late stage — when treatment is more difficult and less likely to be successful

Nov 26 2010

New York Times

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Efforts to make hospitals safer for patients are falling short, researchers report in the first large study in a decade to analyze harm from medical care and to track it over time.

Nov 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Almost one in five hospital patients was injured by their care, according to a study of 10 U.S. hospitals that found little improvement from industry and government efforts to improve safety.

Nov 25 2010

Turkey of a Potpourri

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There you are, relaxing on a holiday and holiday weekend and for some reason you feel compelled to browse the internet and come across our Thanksgiving potpourri, hopefully not a…

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Nov 24 2010

Washington Post

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Health care’s dilemma: Competition or collaboration?

Nov 24 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Louisville, KY-based Humana Inc. and Norton Healthcare jointly announced this week that they have launched the region’s first commercial Accountable Care Organization.

Nov 24 2010

New York Times

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But according to a complaint filed with the FTC, QualityHealth collects information about people’s medical conditions, preferred medicines and treatment plans and uses it to profile its users for prescription drug marketing.