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Aug 09 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

More than one in four of the 117,000 new jobs created in the U.S. economy in July were in healthcare, according to preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statics

Aug 09 2011

PR Newswire

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Symphony Corporation Acquires JGI to Provide End-to-End Services for Healthcare IT

Aug 08 2011

PBS.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

Aug 08 2011

GovHealthIT.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

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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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