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Aug 31 2011

New York Times

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Lipitor, the world’s most-prescribed drug, is worth more than $11 billion in revenue a year to Pfizer — or was. Its patent expires in November, leaving the pharmaceutical company scrambling.

Aug 31 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Commercial ACOs May Find Footing Where CMS Slips

Aug 31 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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AHA Letter Details VBP Program ‘Failures’

Aug 31 2011

PR Newswire

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STRYKER Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire CONCENTRIC MEDICAL, Inc.

Aug 31 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Federal COBRA Insurance Subsidies End For Laid-Off Workers

Aug 30 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The market for technologies that bring healthcare to patients instead of the other way around—mobile healthcare and telehealth—has been growing steadily. And many predict it will take an even bigger jump in the next few years.

Aug 30 2011

PR Newswire

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Prognosis Health Information Systems, Inc., has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Creative Healthcare Systems, Inc., the developers of MedGenix, a powerful financial management and patient accounting system.

Aug 30 2011

NRP.org

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Taming High Health Costs Takes Taming High-Tech

Aug 30 2011

informationweek

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Payoff on HIEs can be hard to calculate, but analysis of a Wisconsin pilot program showed clear savings via elimination of duplicate tests

Aug 30 2011

Wall Street Journal

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To Cut Medicaid Costs, GOP Governors Target Illegal Immigrants

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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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