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Feb 15 2011

Bloomberg

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Drugmakers led by Merck & Co. and Novartis AG boosted investments in mobile phone applications and educational websites by 78 percent to get patients to take their drugs, eat right and exercise, an Ernst & Young report found.

Feb 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Advancing technology—the availability of faster and more reliable networks, wireless devices, high-definition digital images and video, and the ubiquity of mobile devices—is creating a foundation for a system of virtual healthcare

Feb 15 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Emergency Medical Services Corp. agreed to be acquired by private-equity investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC for $64 a share, a sharp discount from the levels at which the stock had traded recently

Feb 15 2011

PR Newswire

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Generation Zero Group, Inc. has merged with StaffMD, Inc. – known as PhysicianWork.com, which is a leading online job-posting website for physicians.

Feb 15 2011

New York Times

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Obama Proposes Health Agency Cut but Spares Medicare Fees

Feb 15 2011

MedPageToday

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The money to pay for the two-year “fix” to the sustainable growth rate (SGR) would come from quality improvements, detecting more Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and decreased revenue for the pharmaceutical industry.

Feb 15 2011

PR Newswire

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ANTEL MEDICAL CORP. has further expanded its infection prevention and control business by purchasing the sterilization monitoring business of ConFirm Monitoring Systems, Inc.

Feb 15 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Medicaid has been a joint federal-state mess for so long that we don’t know exactly what states would do if allowed to innovate

Feb 14 2011

New York Times

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Governors and mayors facing large deficits have set their sights on a relatively new target — the soaring expense of health benefits for millions of retired state and local workers.

Feb 14 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Ensuring ED Specialty Call a Growing Problem in CA

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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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