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Sep 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a case aimed at overturning a 32-year-old injunction that bars the public from seeing the Medicare billing records of individual doctors can proceed.

Sep 28 2011

KaiserHealth News

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HHS Announces $ 103 Million In Community Transformation Grants

Sep 28 2011

StarTribune

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A coalition of U.S. health care businesses, including Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group and Medtronic, proposes to rebuild America’s battered economy by selling the country’s “health ecosystem” internationally.

Sep 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Dartmouth Atlas: Readmission Rates Show ‘Not Much Progress’

Sep 28 2011

HealthcareITnews.com

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Greenway to acquire assets of CySolutions

Sep 26 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

American Medical Alert To Be Acquired By Tunstall Healthcare For $82.3M

Sep 26 2011

next.gov

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The adoption of electronic medical records continues apace.  Nearly 91,000 health-care providers have received $653.3 million in Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments so far this year

Sep 26 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The difference between IPAB and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is that IPAB actually has the power to implement the changes it wants, with key — and very limiting — restrictions.

Sep 26 2011

New York Times

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Since telepsychiatry was introduced decades ago, video conferencing has been an increasingly accepted way to reach patients in hospitals, prisons, veterans’ health care facilities and rural clinics — all supervised sites.

Sep 26 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In April Heritage Provider Network, a California physicians group that contracts with a over 32,000 physicians and 100 hospitals, launched a competition offering $3 million to the entrant or team that built the best algorithm to predict and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations.

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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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