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Jan 11 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Three Health Technologies Caregivers Want Most

Jan 11 2011

South Florida Bus Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The study finds that those who are overweight and obese in the U.S. and Canada cost $300 billion a year, a result of increased need for medical care, as well as loss of economic productivity due to death and disability

Jan 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Clinical decision support is potentially an ideal method for improving the evidence-based use of imaging; clinical decision support systems have the desired properties of being educational, transparent, efficient, practical, and consistent

Jan 10 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Under the new payment system, centers get a flat rate for dialysis treatments, and certain lab tests and drugs including Epogen. This bundling may spur the industry to take a closer look at home therapy

Jan 10 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The new health law encourages doctors, hospitals and insurers to team up in treating patients, but these groups already are at odds as they urge the government to set rules protecting their financial interests.

Jan 10 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The past year saw many hospital mergers and acquisitions, with private, for-profit hospitals or capital management groups using a recovering economy to scoop up distressed public health systems.

Jan 10 2011

ehealthnews.eu

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Royal Philips Electronics has acquired substantially all of the assets of medSage Technologies LLC, a leading provider of patient interaction and management applications.

Jan 07 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In general, there are still substantial regional differences in the amount of services used by similar patients. But there’s less variation than you see when you look just at spending.

Jan 07 2011

Los Angeles Times

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Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals

Jan 07 2011

Health Leaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Wake up and smell the coffee. This is the dawning of the age of transparency in hospital mortality.

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