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Aug 08 2011

PBS.org

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With unspecified cuts to Medicare looming, most doctors and hospital employees say they’ll keep holding their breath.

Aug 08 2011

GovHealthIT.com

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About 77,000 healthcare providers have registered for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program, according to CMS findings about meaningful use participation.

Aug 08 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The biggest question for the U.S. IPO market this week won’t be how deals might perform, but how many can get done.

Aug 08 2011

Reuters

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SAIC Completes Acquisition of Vitalize Consulting Solutions, Inc.

Aug 08 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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A rule proposed by the CMS to allow Medicare and private sector claims data to be used to produce public reports that evaluate the performance of physicians and other healthcare providers raised a number of red flags

Aug 08 2011

Annals of Internal Medicine

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Decreased length of stay and hospital costs associated with hospitalist care are offset by higher medical utilization and costs after discharge.

Aug 08 2011

USA Today

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Experts say the newspaper’s analysis of data released today by Medicare offers a window into the relationship between patients’ perceptions of the the quality of their hospital care and more objective measures, such as hospitals’ death and readmission rates.

Aug 05 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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As the obesity epidemic balloons, physicians like Urquhart are reducing their regular practices, or leaving them altogether, to open money-making weight loss clinics.

Aug 05 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Surgeon Cuts Out Third-Party Payers

Aug 05 2011

govhealthit.com

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Health information exchange SMRTNET has managed to build a network of seven networks and has attracted a broad range of 3,000 providers in 2011 that share data between hospitals, Native American tribes, community health centers, labs, universities and private physicians.

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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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