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Aug 09 2011

HealthCareITNews

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released an advance on a proposed rule about the use of existing metadata standards to support electronic health information exchange

Aug 09 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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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

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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.

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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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