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Jun 30 2011

AZ Central

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If you light up a cigarette, it will snuff out your chances to land a job with health-insurance giant Humana Inc.

Jun 30 2011

Healthcare IT News

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With the prohibitive and rising cost of healthcare, there has never been a greater need for accountable care organizations, according to Mark McClellan, MD, former administrator for the CMS

Jun 30 2011

Bloomberg

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Obama Health-Care Overhaul to Be Appealed to Supreme Court, Lawyer Says

Jun 29 2011

New York Times

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Administration Halts Survey of Making Doctor Visits

Jun 29 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Calculating the ROI on Patient Satisfaction Efforts

Jun 29 2011

govhealthit.com

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The rule that details the requirements for stage 2 of meaningful use will “look a lot like” the measures that the Health IT Policy Committee recently endorsed – the measures focus on patient-centered, safe and coordinated health care, he added.

Jun 29 2011

NPR.org

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Medicare’s hospice costs have increased from $2.9 billion in 2000 to $12 billion in 2009, making it one of the fastest growing segments of the government health care program for the elderly.

Jun 29 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has rolled out a new online directory of 224 health-care quality reports that compare local physicians and hospitals.

Jun 29 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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In 2009, Kaiser reached full integration after a $4 billion investment in population information technology.

Jun 29 2011

NPR.org

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Serious medical errors that result in malpractice payments are almost as common in outpatient settings like physicians’ offices and urgent care clinics as they are in hospitals, according to a recent study published in JAMA.

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