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May 03 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Researchers found an astonishing 37 errors for every 100 paper prescriptions, versus around 7 per 100 for those who used e-prescribing software.

May 03 2012

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Royal DSM (DSM) NA agreed to buy U.S.-based Kensey Nash (KNSY) for $360 million in cash to drive expansion in the market for medical devices and materials engineered from proteins and synthetic polymers.

May 03 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration has tentatively agreed to chip in $1.9 billion over five years Oregon.  The Oregon plan would create “coordinated care organizations” to manage all mental, physical and dental care for 600,000 low-income patients on the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program.

May 03 2012

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Omnicell, Inc., a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions to healthcare systems, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MTS Medication Technologies, Inc., a worldwide provider of medication adherence packaging systems

May 03 2012

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The new health law faces conflicting dangers: either it won’t be strong enough to upend entrenched incentives or it will be so successful it will prove too politically disruptive to survive.

May 02 2012

The Hill

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

President Obama’s healthcare law gives the country’s biggest businesses a strong incentive to quit offering healthcare benefits, House Republicans said Tuesday.

May 02 2012

Business Week

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Federal regulators are now scrutinizing whether small companies with relatively healthy employees will pull out of the group health insurance market by self-insuring—meaning the companies take on the risk of paying for employees’ medical care.

May 02 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

United States authorities have charged 107 people, including doctors and nurses, for trying to defraud the federal Medicare health care program for the elderly and disabled of about $452 million

May 02 2012

Marketwatch.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

ConvaTec, a world-leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care today announced that it has acquired AbViser Medical, LLC, a Salt Lake City, UT-based company that specializes in products for the critical care marketplace.

May 02 2012

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

TeamHealth Holdings Inc. today announced the acquisition of the operations of The Exigence Group (“Exigence”) and its related entities.

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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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