Kevin Roche – Page 853 – Healthy Skeptic

Oct 28 2010

ComputerWorld

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Physicians’ practices and small clinics, where most doctors work, don’t have the money to implement the technology, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Oct 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Improving the patient experience, which healthcare organizations have long thought of as a market differentiator, will soon become a necessity under healthcare reform.

Oct 28 2010

Bloomberg

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ExamWorks Group Inc., a provider of medical legal services, sold its U.S. initial public offering at the bottom of the forecast range

Oct 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Amid all the anguish in the medical community over changes to come from the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps this is the most daunting: the expected doubling in size of the patient load.

Oct 28 2010

New York Times

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In another demonstration of the increasing importance of health and wellness advertising to Madison Avenue, a leading agency is forming a unit that will specialize in marketing to health care professionals like doctors and managed care organizations

Oct 28 2010

NPR

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The evidence is very clear that the rise in medical costs is a key factor in driving up health insurance premiums, but in some cases, premiums could rise significantly because of new benefits the law requires.

Oct 28 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Complete Genomics Tips Cap To Rivals For IPO Valuation Boost

Oct 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospital ownership can make a significant difference in both revenues and compensation, a report from the Medical Group Management Association finds.

Oct 28 2010

USA Today

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Doctor-owned hospitals race to beat Medicare deadline

Oct 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Data collected from both hospital/IDS-owned and independent practices indicates that practices that have implemented an EHR system produced better financial results than those that have not

Oct 28 2010

nextgov.com

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The AMA is testing a new on-line portal that will serve as a virtual marketplace for buyers and sellers of electronic health records and practice management applications

Oct 28 2010

Home Is Where the Care Is

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The complexity and rate of change in health care sometimes makes spotting major trends difficult. One appears to be growth of home-based diagnostic and therapeutic care. An article in the…

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Oct 27 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Patients stand to benefit as pharmaceutical companies seek improved diagnostic and research tools that shed light on what exactly triggers a disease.

Oct 27 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Three times a year, 29 doctors gather around a table in a hotel meeting room. Their job is an unusual one: divvying up billions of Medicare dollars