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Mar 17 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The Case Against (and for) Donald Berwick

Mar 17 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Insurance brokers, worried their livelihoods are in jeopardy from the health law, are pressing Congress and state legislatures to safeguard agent commissions and guarantee them a key role in new marketplaces being

Mar 17 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Doctor Shortages Under Health Law May Depend On Geography

Mar 17 2011

EMR and HIPAA

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The Sanction Policy is an integral part of Meaningful Use

Mar 17 2011

Barrons

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Even as government and private health plans push to restrain spending on medicines, the prices of brand name prescriptions are climbing rapidly, reaching the steepest rate of the decade last year.

Mar 17 2011

Wall Street Journal

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If among the great ideas that’s hit you in the shower lately is a computer algorithm to predict which people will spend the most time in the hospital over the course of a year, this is your moment.

Mar 16 2011

US News Health

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The likelihood of Medicare patients being diagnosed with a chronic disease may depend on where they live

Mar 16 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Amid a larger effort to use medical data to improve health care, one company is trying something new: offering $3 million in prize money for the algorithm that can best predict when people are likely to be sent to the hospital.

Mar 16 2011

Washington Post

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Tricare target of Pentagon cuts as health care projected to reach $65B

Mar 16 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Among hospital survey respondents, 39% said EMR systems will receive the majority of capital funds in the coming year. Another 27% say most of their capital funds will go to clinical technology this year.

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