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Dec 30 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

Dec 29 2010

Fiscal Times

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Health Plans for High-Risk Patients Attracting Fewer, Costing More Than Expected

Dec 29 2010

Journal Sentinel

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For years, published articles revealed scant information about the financial conflicts of authors – Doctors say those articles have incalculable value to device-makers trying to increase sales of their products.

Dec 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Online Tool Takes the ‘Wait’ Out of Waiting Rooms

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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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