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Mar 29 2011

Stockhouse.com

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CryoLife Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Cardiogenesis

Mar 29 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Raising Medicare’s eligibility age by two years would save the federal government $7.6 billion but those costs—and more—would shift to others, according to a report out today

Mar 29 2011

PR Newswire

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Almost Family, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire the assets of the Medicare-certified home health agency owned by Caregivers Health Network, Inc.

Mar 29 2011

Bloomberg

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Medicaid, the joint U.S.-state health program for the poor, spent $329 million extra in 2009 purchasing 20 brand-name drugs instead of available generic copies, according to an American Enterprise Institute report.

Mar 29 2011

Cleveland.com

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Health care reform: Understanding the details of the ‘individual mandate’

Mar 29 2011

New York Times

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The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that conflicts of interest were reported by 56 percent of 498 people who helped write 17 guidelines for the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, from 2003 through 2008.

Mar 29 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Hospitals serving U.S. military veterans are moving fast to improve care after the government opened a trove of performance data—including surgical death rates—to the public.

Mar 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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These five areas illustrate the major themes of the ACHE conference: 1. Physician alignment and employment; 2. Board governance; 3. Supply chain issues; 4. Prophylaxis against anything bad; and 5. How to set performance metrics>

Mar 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Technology “can create anxiety,” Dr. Topol says, “but it’s also empowering.”

Mar 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

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How will an increasing number of people get quality care at a cost that the nation can afford? The answer isn’t hard to figure out. It’s innovation.

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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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