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Mar 17 2010

HealthLeadersMedia

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Health insurers told a Massachusetts agency examining rising health care costs that “providing care in more expensive settings” is the primary driver of increasing health costs

Mar 17 2010

New York Times

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Facing a sharp rise in costs, Pennsylvania has almost doubled the monthly bill for a state health insurance program for poor people who do not qualify for Medicaid

Mar 17 2010

Bloomberg

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Pelosi and Reid can’t move forward until they have the cost estimate from the nonpartisan budget office – they have been going back and forth with CBO officials for days

Mar 17 2010

BU Public School of Health

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BU Public School of Health: This report documents and investigates the excess in Massachusetts hospital
costs per person above the average for the United States

Mar 17 2010

National Broadband Plan and Health Care

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Communications and information technology has an increasingly critical role in health care and in the future vision of health care delivery and administration. The FCC has been tasked with facilitating…

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Mar 16 2010

mobilehealthwatch

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“While telehealth remains an emerging category for Consumer Electronics, consumer-led telehealth services could prove to be the disruptive influence required for professional care authorities to drive telehealth forward.”

Mar 16 2010

mobihealthnews

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Shortly after becoming available for download from the AppStore, MIMvista’s app was removed from the store – the reason? FDA regulation

Mar 16 2010

BusinessWire

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RMG Networks announced today the acquisition of Pharmacy TV, a digital place-based video network deployed near the pharmacist counter in major grocery chains and pharmacy retail

Mar 16 2010

Washington Post

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The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate Health Care bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers “deem” the health-care bill to be passed

Mar 16 2010

Washington Post

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The AHA 2008 guidelines declared deactivating a defibrillator an ethical end-of-life decision, similar to withholding other treatments in favor of comfort care

Mar 16 2010

Washington Post

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Recent studies undertaken to assess vitamin and mineral pill benefits were disappointing – they failed to prevent Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart attacks, strokes or Type 2 diabetes

Mar 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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If decisions based on Comparative Effectiveness Research inhibit the progress of personalized medicine—or in any way interfere with a tailored, most appropriate therapy—no one is helped

Mar 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Although insurers generally oppose the health-care bill, an overhaul would give the industry a chance to boost its diminishing rolls with an influx of young healthy customers

Mar 16 2010

New York Times

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A nationwide torrent of state cuts to Medicaid, results in patients finding it increasingly difficult to locate care givers who will accept their coverage

Mar 16 2010

Reuters

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Australian private equity firm CHAMP plans to sell Healthcare Australia (HCA), the nation’s largest nursing and aged care staffing business

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