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Dec 30 2010

Healthcare IT News

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The Office of the Inspector General is positioning itself for its monitoring responsibilities of Medicare and Medicaid information systems and data security.

Dec 30 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Allscripts Sunrise Acute Care, Version 5.5 and Sunrise Emergency Care Version 5.5 have been certified as Complete Electronic Health Records for 2011/2012 by the federal government’s CCHIT

Dec 30 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Study looked at 89 patients with various stages of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas whose primary tumor was resected using the da Vinci Robot.

Dec 30 2010

New York Times

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The legal challenge to the Obama health care act has invigorated a dispute as old as the Constitution

Dec 30 2010

Bloomberg

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Unnecessary surgeries cost at least $150 billion a year, according to the Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy at the University of Michigan.

Dec 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health insurers are preparing to capitalize on $40 billion of new opportunities to run privately managed Medicaid plans for the states, which would position insurers to benefit from the health overhaul’s expansion of Medicaid in 2014.

Dec 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Standard measures of hospital quality aren’t improved much by the use of electronic medical records, according to a recently published study by Rand Corp. researchers.

Dec 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Patient-centered, interconnected care is good thing for all healthcare and especially for the most troublesome disease states.

Dec 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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As the New Year arrives, it’s time to analyze what we’ve gotten out of HITECH.

Dec 29 2010

PR Newswire

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SXC Health Solutions completed the previously disclosed acquisition of MedfusionRx, LLC

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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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