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Aug 18 2010

NPR

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High-speed Internet connections now make it possible to bring a doctor’s expertise to patients in far-off places, if those places are connected

Aug 18 2010

State Variations in Health Insurance Costs

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AHRQ released a statistical brief looking at state differences in the cost of employment-based health insurance and how much of that cost is borne by employees. Follow-up research to understand…

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Aug 17 2010

ehealthnews.eu

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Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it has joined Gilde Healthcare III – a new venture capital fund focusing on innovative early and growth stage healthcare technology companies in Europe and the US

Aug 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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ResCare Inc. received a proposal from Toronto-based investment firm to buy the stake of company it doesn’t already own, valuing the provider of home care to the elderly and people with disabilities at $365.4 million

Aug 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Forty-five states and the District of Columbia will each get $1 million in federal funds to monitor proposed health insurance premium hikes in their jurisdictions, and take action against unreasonable increases

Aug 17 2010

Washington Post

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Cancer is the world’s top “economic killer” as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report

Aug 17 2010

Bloomberg

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Diabetics who undergo weight-loss surgery need fewer medications to control the condition and have lower health-care costs after the procedure, a study found.

Aug 17 2010

New York Times

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The study finds that “Americans, who face higher out-of-pocket health care costs, have reduced their routine medical care” much more than people in Britain, Canada, France and Germany.

Aug 17 2010

InformationWeek

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A new report concludes that EHRs will only be able to provide about a third of the data requirements for Stage 1 quality measures outlined in the final rule.

Aug 17 2010

New York Times

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Among the uninsured, 7.4 percent made two or more visits to an E.R., but so did 5.1 percent of people with private insurance. Medicaid recipients were the heaviest users of E.R.’s, with 15.3 percent of them making two or more visits during the year.

Aug 17 2010

Fiscal Times

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Democrats, running scared in an election year, are trying to overcome older people’s mistrust of the new health care law

Aug 17 2010

amednews.com

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Investing in an electronic medical records system was not something many physicians late in their careers were probably thinking about a few years ago

Aug 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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The biggest losers in federal health care reform — the country’s physician-owned specialty hospitals — are on pins and needles

Aug 17 2010

FDA’s Review of the 510(k) Process

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The Food and Drug Administration has been reviewing its 510(k) process, which is used for many medical device approvals. Two preliminary reports contain a series of recommendations designed to provide…

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Aug 16 2010

Healthcare IT News

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Ingenix, a leading health information technology and services company, today announced it is acquiring Axolotl, a leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) services

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