Skip to main content
Healthy Skeptic
search
Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts
  • search
Close Search

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Aug 01 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Nursing Homes to Absorb $3.87 Billion U.S. Medicare Cut in 2012

Aug 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The rapidly-increasing number of physicians who are unwilling to accept new Medicare patients is the best evidence that Medicare provider payment cuts reduce access to care.

Aug 01 2011

Yahoo Finance

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CareFusion has completed the acquisition of Rowa, a Germany-based company specializing in robotic medication storage and retrieval systems for retail and hospital pharmacies

Aug 01 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Federal examiners have rejected patents for genetic screening tests because the applicants did not explore their effectiveness for different races

Aug 01 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

FDA Backs Quicker Reviews for Hip Implants in Reply to Panel’s Report

Aug 01 2011

amednews.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Pace of mergers, acquisitions revs up for physician practices

Jul 29 2011

EMRandHIPAA

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As everyone in health IT knows, EMR certification, a prerequisite for meaningful use, does not measure usability

Jul 29 2011

Health Leaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Over the next two years, CMS expects hospitals to begin tracking and reporting their median times for two National Quality Forum-approved benchmarks for emergency care

Jul 29 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Epocrates has won over nearly half of the nation’s doctors for its free smartphone apps that lets them look up information on drug dosing, interactions and insurance coverage while seeing a patient.

Jul 29 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The iPad application drchrono has been granted a “Meaningful Use” certification by the U.S. government

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 538
  • 539
  • 540
  • 541
  • 542
  • …
  • 1,087
  • Next »

✅ Receive notifications of new posts by email.

About this Blog

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.

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

Research

This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

Headlines

InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026

Tags

Access (89) ACO (165) Care Management (268) Chronic Disease (216) Comparative Effectiveness (81) Consumer Directed Health (71) Consumers (514) Devices (168) Disease Management (149) Drugs (605) EHRs (145) Elder Care (149) End-of-Life Care (97) FDA (85) Financings (1844) Genomics (80) Government (357) Health Care Costs (1428) Health Care Quality (616) Health Care Reform (1227) Health Insurance (1116) Health Insurance Exchange (162) HIT (478) HomeCare (76) Hospital (490) Hospital Readmissions (79) Legislation (78) M&A (1723) Malpractice (84) Meaningful Use (105) Medicaid (334) Medical Care (346) Medicare (607) Medicare Advantage (80) Mobile (89) Pay For Performance (92) Pharmaceutical (211) Physicians (569) Providers (252) Regulation (72) Repealing Reform (133) Telehealth (79) Telemedicine (325) Wellness and Prevention (316) Workplace (117)

About This Blog

The 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 through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

Categories

  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research

Useful Links

  • Congressional Budget Office
  • Health Affairs

RSS Feed

RSS feed

© 2026 Healthy Skeptic.

  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
Close Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts