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Dec 09 2011

GovhealthIT.com

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U.S. Surgeon General is challenging mobile health application developers to come up with technology tools that are not only creative but also easy and enjoyable for Americans to use in their everyday lives to encourage healthy behaviors

Dec 09 2011

Bloomberg

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CardioMems Fails to Wins FDA Panel Backing for Implanted Heart Monitor

Dec 09 2011

Kasier Health News

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In the ongoing deficit reduction talks, critical access hospitals have been singled out at least twice as a program ripe for cutting

Dec 08 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The federal agency will relax its restrictions on the release of information about individual doctors, reversing a three-decade position that doing so would violate physicians’ privacy rights.

Dec 08 2011

Bloomberg

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General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp.  plan a joint venture combining electronic health-care management and software systems that aim to reduce costs from errors and waste

Dec 08 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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In addition to taking a load off EDs, retail clinics are also poised to take on the roles of primary care provider and disease management.

Dec 08 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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At least 64% of all healthcare insurers in 2010 would have met or exceeded the 2011 MLR requirements contained in PPACA

Dec 08 2011

Kaiser Health News

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The number of urgent care facilities has steadily increased from 8,000 in 2008 to more than 9,200 this year, the association said. About 600 new  centers opened this year.

Dec 07 2011

Washington Post

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A map of healthcosts: Health care spending in the United States ranges from a high of $9,278 per person in Massachusetts to $5,031 in Utah. On average, it hovers at $6,815 per person

Dec 07 2011

Bloomberg

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Over the next decade, we are likely to see a shift in health insurance in the U.S.: So-called defined-contribution plans will gradually take over the market, shifting the residual risk of incurring high health-care costs from employers to workers.

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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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