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Jul 18 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A survey of the nation’s homeless in 30 cities has found that more than one in five visited the emergency department or was hospitalized over three times in the last year.

Jul 18 2011

New York Times

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Known as IPAB, the board may not be appointed for another couple of years, and remains in suspended animation to see if the brouhaha dies down.

Jul 18 2011

NPR.org

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A new study by the AARP estimates that for the more than 40 million Americans caring for an elderly or disabled loved one, the value of their work is $450 billion a year.

Jul 18 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Healthcare M&A Activity Hits Record Pace

Jul 18 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Credit-card issuers are stepping up their marketing of health-care cards and lines of credit that help borrowers finance costly elective medical procedures.

Jul 18 2011

Washington Post

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Families fear states’ home health care cuts will force seniors, disabled into nursing homes

Jul 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, spent several hours over two days this week defending the board before two House committees.

Jul 15 2011

Tennessean.com

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Nuance Communications Inc. has acquired Webmedx Inc. to boost its market share in medical transcriptions, days after the industry’s No. 1 player, MedQuist Holdings, said it had agreed to acquire M*Modal Inc., a vendor of speech recognition technology, for about $130 million.

Jul 15 2011

LA Times

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The heated debate over the federal deficit has pumped new life into controversial proposals for requiring Americans on Medicare to pay more for their healthcare

Jul 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The value-based purchasing sweepstakes race is on. It’s hospital against hospital in a national contest to see which acute care teams can please their patients the most on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey.

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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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