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Oct 22 2012

PBS.org

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Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries

Oct 22 2012

Wall Street Journal

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The presidential election is unlikely to change the landscape for people picking health plans this fall. If President Obama is re-elected, the changes stay. If GOP candidate Mitt Romney wins, getting rid of the law is unlikely to be a quick or easy process

Oct 19 2012

Washington Post

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A state-by-state look at the Medicaid expansion part of Obama’s health care law

Oct 18 2012

Information Week

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If providers and insurers hope to improve medical care, they need to join forces to maximize the amount of patient data available to clinicians

Oct 18 2012

Information Week

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A public-private consortium is about to make a quantum leap in the interoperability among disparate electronic health record (EHR) systems and health information exchanges (HIEs).

Oct 18 2012

The Street

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Wolters Kluwer Health To Acquire Health Language, Inc., A Leader In The Medical Terminology Management Market

Oct 17 2012

PR Newswire

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SHPS, Inc. sells its collaborative care management software subsidiary Landacorp, Inc. to EXL Service

Oct 16 2012

Wired.com

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The health care industry plays a gigantic game of Blind Man’s Bluff, keeping patients in the dark while asking them to make life-and-death decisions.

Oct 16 2012

PR Newswire

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The Riverside Company has acquired Premier Medical Corporation (Premier), a provider of rental respiratory equipment, liquid oxygen, durable medical equipment and related services to skilled nursing facilities and hospices in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. The acquisition is an add-on to platform company Specialized Medical Services, Inc.

Oct 15 2012

Information Week

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UPMC is taking its big data initiative a step further by announcing a five-year $100 million investment to create a comprehensive data warehouse that brings together clinical, financial, administrative, genomic, and other information

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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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