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Nov 26 2010

npr.org

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Obama, Insurers Spar Over Rising Health Insurance Costs

Nov 26 2010

nextgov.com

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A new online portal where patients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics can see their electronic medical records is proving popular, reducing calls to doctors’ offices and streamlining responses to patients’ question

Nov 26 2010

Washington Post

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Doctors across the country are being forced to shift away from Medicare toward higher-paying, privately insured or self-paying patients in response to years of penny-pinching by Congress.

Nov 26 2010

medpage

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Half of all cases of invasive colorectal cancer diagnosed in the U.S. among people older than 50 continue to be diagnosed at a late stage — when treatment is more difficult and less likely to be successful

Nov 26 2010

New York Times

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Efforts to make hospitals safer for patients are falling short, researchers report in the first large study in a decade to analyze harm from medical care and to track it over time.

Nov 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Almost one in five hospital patients was injured by their care, according to a study of 10 U.S. hospitals that found little improvement from industry and government efforts to improve safety.

Nov 24 2010

Washington Post

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Health care’s dilemma: Competition or collaboration?

Nov 24 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Louisville, KY-based Humana Inc. and Norton Healthcare jointly announced this week that they have launched the region’s first commercial Accountable Care Organization.

Nov 24 2010

New York Times

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But according to a complaint filed with the FTC, QualityHealth collects information about people’s medical conditions, preferred medicines and treatment plans and uses it to profile its users for prescription drug marketing.

Nov 24 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Amid pressure from employers, the Obama administration on Monday loosened rules for bare-bones health-insurance policies. It marks one of the administration’s biggest steps to peel back regulations that big business found onerous under the health- care overhaul.