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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

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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

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

Sep 26 2011

next.gov

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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

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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

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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.

Sep 26 2011

Bloomberg

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President Barack Obama’s health- care law got a mixed reception in its fourth review by a federal appeals court as three judges grappled with questions about the law’s constitutionality

Sep 23 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The U.K. said it was scrapping a £11 billion ($17 billion) information-technology program for its state-run health service, saying that some of the £6.4 billion already spent has been wasted

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