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Sep 13 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Today, hospitals and doctors use a system of about 18,000 codes to describe medical services in bills they send to insurers.  A new federally mandated version will expand the number to around 140,000

Sep 13 2011

NPR.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Federal officials call it “the next big step” in cardiovascular prevention. There’s lots of evidence it’s an achievable goal.

Sep 13 2011

EMR and HIPAA

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

FitBit – The sexual activity of many of the users of the company’s tracker and online platform can be found in Google Search results

Sep 13 2011

Drugs.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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.

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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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