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Jun 08 2012

InformationWeek

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health IT specialists will soon want to know more about a field called geo-medicine, which combines geographic information system (GIS) software with clinical databases to provide insights that might improve individual and population health

Jun 08 2012

Bloomberg

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Fees that health insurers will be required to pay the U.S. government starting in 2014 will give nonprofits such as Kaiser Permanente a market advantage over corporate competitors,

Jun 08 2012

Wasington Post

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For 14 months, a bipartisan group of 17 states has been quietly collaborating with the Obama administration to help build a foundation for the health-care reform law’s success.

Jun 08 2012

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

House Republicans on Thursday repealed the medical device tax included in the 2010 health care reform law to help pay for coverage of the uninsured.

Jun 08 2012

NPR.org

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The full genetic code of a fetus has been cracked. The technique, used by scientists at the University of Washington, could offer parents safer and more comprehensive prenatal testing in the future.  The ethical questions that arise from this kind of testing abound.

Jun 08 2012

The Hill

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Health and Human Services Department has missed nearly half of its legal deadlines while implementing President Obama’s healthcare law, according to an analysis by the American Action Forum.

Jun 07 2012

InformationWeek

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to better define the “essential benefits” that non-grandfathered health plans participating in the state health insurance exchanges must offer.

Jun 07 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Some hospitals and health systems are starting to figure out there’s a better way to get reimbursed, one that is less stressful for the patient and more efficient for the provider.

Jun 07 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Some of the nation’s best-known hospitals get poor grades on patient safety, according to a new Hospital Safety Score released by The Leapfrog Group, the health-care quality watchdog formed more than a decade ago by large employers.

Jun 07 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

White House threatens to veto House GOP bill repealing tax on medical devices

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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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