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Feb 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Here are the 10 general categories of benefits that the health law considers essential, and some services within each that could trigger debate as regulators develop rules

Feb 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Kiosks and automated check-in processes are making their way from the airport lobby to the doctor’s office.

Feb 28 2011

New York Times

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Congress allocated billions — the current estimate is $27 billion — in incentives for doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic records. Now, a new Congress with Republicans looking for budget cuts could take back the money.

Feb 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

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More than half the states want permission to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the Medicaid insurance program

Feb 25 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Put the legal arguments aside for the moment and focus on the real question: what happens to health reform if the individual mandate is ultimately struck down?

Feb 25 2011

govhealthit.com

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hopes to demonstrate and test in late summer tools that will make it easier to share patient data, and to include them in the next stage of meaningful use criteria.

Feb 25 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Dartmouth Atlas Finds Vast Regional Differences in Medicare-Backed Elective Surgery Rates

Feb 25 2011

Atlanta City Biz

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Connecture, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Insurix, a technology provider of sales automation software to health insurance carriers and brokers.

Feb 25 2011

Quest Press Release

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Quest Diagnostics to Acquire Athena Diagnostics, Establishing Leading Position in Rapidly Growing Neurology Testing Market

Feb 25 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it would take another step into health care, setting up a joint venture with U.S.-based biopharmaceutical-services company Quintiles Transnational Corp

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