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Sep 16 2013

els

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

LexisNexis, an Elsevier company, has acquired Enclarity, which provides provider identification and authentication tools. LexisNexis has made several acquisitions in the health IT space recently.

Sep 16 2013

hr

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Similar to many administrative aspects of health reform, the cost of running a key website for the exchanges has tripled from the original estimate.

Sep 11 2013

mandate

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The Congressional Budget Office finds that delaying the individual mandate for one year, coupled with other small changes to the reform law, would save $36 billion. Okay, so where is all the cost reduction from the reform law–if it existed, the delay would increase federal costs.

Sep 11 2013

hai

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According to researchers, the five most common health-care associated infections, many if not most of which should be preventable, account for $9.8 billion of cost annually.

Sep 11 2013

icu

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A study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that significant amounts of futile care are delivered in ICUs at a substantial cost.

Sep 11 2013

rob

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Another study shows that robotic surgery, this time for gynecologic conditions, is more costly than other methods and likely delivers no better, and in some respects, worse, quality.

Sep 11 2013

next

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NextDocs has raised an additional $13.5 million for its clinical trial software.

Sep 11 2013

cc

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A report from McKesson finds that chemotherapy in a hospital outpatient setting is much more expensive than in community physician settings, providing more evidence that reimbursement needs to be equalized across settings.

Sep 10 2013

qsi

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Quality Systems, which offers the NextGen EHR line, has acquired Mirth Corp. (this is no laughing matter), which sells health information exchange technology, for about $60 million.

Sep 09 2013

md fee

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The Centers for Medicare Services explanation of the proposed 2013 Medicare physician reimbursement shows that costs for running a physician practice have been rising faster than reimbursement by about 1% a year since 1998.