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Nov 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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New details emerged Tuesday about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ anticipated Innovation Center.

Nov 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health-technology companies are hoping that the new state insurance “exchanges” required by the federal health-care overhaul will offer them big new growth opportunities.

Nov 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Would poor people who lose Medicaid be eligible for subsidies to buy private coverage in an insurance exchange beginning in 2014?

Nov 17 2010

New York Times

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Pharmaceutical companies are now actively pursuing personalized medicine, according to a new report from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development

Nov 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Obama administration continues to loosen health-law rules so employers can switch insurance carriers without having to abide by new coverage requirements.

Nov 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Today a not-for-profit alliance of medical society and professional liability carrier executives is rolling out EHRevent.org, a new safety reporting system for EHRs.

Nov 16 2010

New York Times

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One of every seven Medicare beneficiaries who is hospitalized is harmed as a result of problems with the medical care there, according to a new study from the Office of Inspector General

Nov 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The CMS said it will update its five-star plan ratings in 2011, and use the new metric as the basis for quality bonus payments in a demonstration project for Medicare Advantage health plans that starts in 2012.

Nov 16 2010

Chicago Tribune

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While more than 30 different online services now grade doctors, assessing a doctor’s skills has turned out to be much more complicated and controversial than ranking hotels or restaurants.

Nov 16 2010

Seattle Times

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Starting next year, the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement will make it available, free of charge, to doctors throughout Minnesota, in what some say could be a national model for curbing health costs

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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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