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Sep 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

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St. Jude Medical’s agreement to invest $60 million in venture-backed cardiac device maker CardioMEMS Inc. includes an exclusive option to buy the company for $375 million.

Sep 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

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ResCare Inc. agreed to an increased buyout offer from Toronto-based investment firm Onex Corp. that values the provider of home care to the elderly and people with disabilities at about $384 million.

Sep 08 2010

New York Times

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Medical groups that perform heart bypass surgery are now being rated alongside cars and toaster ovens in Consumer Reports.

Sep 08 2010

The Hill

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A group of researchers this week estimated that the annual cost related to medical liability is $55.6 billion — or 2.4 percent of the nation’s healthcare spending.

Sep 08 2010

Using Nurses Instead of Doctors

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Research shows that allowing nurse anesthetists to do their jobs without physician supervision does not pose additional risk to patients. Regulations and laws which limit this ability should therefore be…

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Sep 07 2010

Hospital Process of Care Measures and Outcomes

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A new study of the association between process of care measures and health outcomes for certain hospital episodes has encouraging results for pay for reporting and pay for performance programs.

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Sep 07 2010

New York Times

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Can access to primary care be maintained, much less improved, when an already inadequate and inefficient system takes on an expected 32 million newly insured customers?

Sep 07 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Uniformity of practice is a nonsensical goal that fails to allow for differing expression of disease states

Sep 07 2010

Washington Post

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Medicare considers observation services outpatient care, which requires beneficiaries to cover a bigger share of drug costs and other expenses than they would when receiving inpatient care.

Sep 07 2010

Washington Post

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The reform law establishes a three-year “concurrent care” demonstration program at 15 sites nationwide, in which Medicare would cover both hospice care and any further life-prolonging treatment simultaneously

Sep 07 2010

Boston Globe

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Donald Berwick is moving quickly behind the scenes to seed the US health care system with 100 to 300 sites to test new models of caring for patients.

Sep 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Software designers are developing games aimed at helping people improve their health in a variety of ways, be it getting diabetics to eat right or leading Parkinson’s patients through rehabilitation.

Sep 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A reversal of federal policy that lets trial lawyers use litigation expenses as tax deductions would result in more frivolous malpractice lawsuits

Sep 06 2010

New York Times

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Mobile robots are now being used in hundreds of hospitals nationwide – and they are being tested as caregivers in assisted-living centers.

Sep 06 2010

Politico

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A handful of House Democrats are making health care reform an election year issue — by running against it.