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Sep 13 2011

Drugs.com

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ImpactRx, a pioneer in measuring the impact of promotion on physician prescribing behavior, announced today that it has acquired 100% of TargetRx, Inc., a leading provider of insight into the drivers of physician behavior for pharmaceutical companies

Sep 12 2011

Wall Street Journal

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WellPoint Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are set to announce a deal on Monday for the health insurer to use the Watson technology, the first time the high-profile project will result in a commercial application.

Sep 12 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The nation’s system for training physicians is in dramatic need of a complete overhaul to adequately provide future patient care

Sep 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Seeking The Best Place For Long-Term Care? Head North

Sep 12 2011

LA Times

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Medicare could save billions of dollars if people who were pre-diabetic or at risk for cardiovascular disease took part in community-based weight-loss programs, a study finds

Sep 12 2011

New York Times

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Americans seem to be paying the price for the unrelenting rise in health care costs in this country, according to several studies being published on Thursday in Health Affairs, an academic journal.

Sep 11 2011

CMIO.net

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A survey results suggest that the initial meaningful use threshold for hospitals is probably too low to have a significant impact on deaths from heart failure and heart attack among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.

Sep 09 2011

Bloomberg

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Florida’s plan to outsource health care in the third-largest U.S. prison system to save $30 million has stalled

Sep 09 2011

Bloomberg

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The three-judge panel said yesterday it didn’t yet have the power to consider a challenge to the law’s requirement that Americans

Sep 09 2011

Boston.com

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The EarlySense system uses motion sensors placed underneath hospital beds to track patients’ vital signs, such as heart and respiratory rates, and provide caregivers with data-driven graphs and charts to enhance preventative care.