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Jun 12 2012

Informationweek.com

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The total number of days spent in the ICU and overall length of stay decline when hospital patients are continuously monitored using contact-free sensors, according to a new study.

Jun 12 2012

The Hill

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Streamlining administrative procedures in healthcare would save the system some $40 billion per year, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress.

Jun 12 2012

Washington Post

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State revenues are finally returning to pre-recession levels, but the growing cost of providing health care for the poor is leaving most governments in dire fiscal straits

Jun 12 2012

Xconomy.com

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Ready or Not, Genomics is Coming to a Hospital Near You

Jun 12 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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The national blood testing lab Quest Diagnostics has been handing thousands of Southern California Medicare patients with diabetes a “non-coverage” notice called an “Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage,” or ABN

Jun 12 2012

Fiscal Times

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One of the nation’s largest insurers said early Monday it would continue to follow some of the rules in the federal health law that are already in effect

Jun 11 2012

PR Newswire

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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the acquisition of Broker Benefit Services, L.L.C. in Chesterfield, Missouri. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Jun 11 2012

Careindustrynews.co.uk

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The private equity arm of OMERS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lifeways from August Equity for an undisclosed sum. Lifeways is the UK’s market leading provider of supported living services for adults with learning disabilities.

Jun 11 2012

New York Times

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Ms. DeParle reassured the lobbyist. Although Mr. Obama was overseas, she wrote, she and other top officials had “made decision, based on how constructive you guys have been, to oppose importation” on a different proposal.

Jun 11 2012

Bloomberg

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UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it will offer some benefits and consumer protections created by the U.S. health-care overhaul even if the law is struck down by the Supreme Court. The exception: Those involving people with pre- existing illnesses.