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Oct 07 2011

PR Newswire

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Netsmart Acquires Sequest Technologies, Inc. to Expand Solutions and Presence in Child and Family Services and Substance Use Treatment Communities

Oct 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospitals could dramatically improve patient flow and save money by discharging low-risk elective percutaneous coronary intervention patients 12 hours earlier rather than keeping them through the night

Oct 06 2011

PR Newswire

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TeamHealth Holdings announced the acquisition of the operations of Integrity Hospitalists Group.  Physicians affiliated with IHG provide the general medical care of hospitalized patients who do not have an assigned primary care physician

Oct 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Tucked away in section 1302 of the behemoth Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the requirement that the Department of Health and Human Services define the essential healthcare benefits

Oct 06 2011

Bloomberg

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End-of-Life Surgery May Be Overused in Medicare, Harvard Researchers Say

Oct 06 2011

NPR.org

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The researchers found that the worst hospitals tended to be small public hospitals and for-profit institutions in the South. They treated twice as many elderly, black patients as did the 122 “best” hospitals

Oct 06 2011

PR Newswire

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ConvaTec has acquired Farnhurst Medical Ltd, a UK-based company that specialises in the home delivery of stoma and continence care products.

Oct 06 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Quality indicators are supposed to encourage better health care.  But in the case of the elderly, they may lead to unintended harms

Oct 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) is creating new pressure to get ­patients more ­actively involved in their care

Oct 05 2011

Reuters

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Home health stocks crash on criminal probe speculation

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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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