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May 01 2012

Bloomberg

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More than 80 percent of hospitals have yet to achieve the requirements for the first stage of a $14.6 billion U.S. program to encourage doctors to adopt electronic medical records, the industry’s largest trade group said.

May 01 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Castlight Health, a company aiming to bring more transparency to the costs of various medical procedures, has secured one of the largest funding rounds on record for a health-related software company

May 01 2012

Bloomberg

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Accretive Health Asks Court to Toss State of Minnesota Suit

May 01 2012

MSNBC.com

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Study: Obesity adds $190 billion in health costs

May 01 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Productivity in healthcare, in the sense of wringing out incremental savings in labor, has lagged far behind the rest of business largely because competitive pressures present in other industries simply didn’t exist in healthcare.

May 01 2012

New York Times

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The growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some fuel for optimism about the federal government’s long-term fiscal performance.

Apr 30 2012

PR Newswire

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CR2, LLC announced the acquisition of CardioReady, a pioneer in Cardiac Emergency Response and Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Apr 30 2012

PE Hub

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Haemonetics Corporation is to acquire the business assets of the blood collection, filtration and processing product lines of Pall Corporation

Apr 30 2012

MedPageToday

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced several Affordable Care Act initiatives aimed at keeping more chronically ill patients at home for care.

Apr 30 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Executives began to worry about EHR’s independence when the firm was acquired in 2010 by UnitedHealth Group

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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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