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Nov 11 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Medium and large companies project that, for the most part, they will hold onto their health plans. Just six percent of survey respondents with 500 or more employees said they are likely to drop their plans.

Nov 11 2010

Bloomberg

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Philips has been engaged in telehealth for more than 10 years and developed the Motiva platform, an interactive device that connects patients and health-care providers through a home television and broadband Internet.

Nov 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), said the focus of the regulation on providing ubiquitous healthcare access has “crowded out cost containment and quality.”

Nov 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Significant variation in the way hospitals measure and report acquired bloodstream infections points to problems with payment incentives and databases that compare institutions

Nov 11 2010

New York Times

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Federal drug regulators on Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse

Nov 11 2010

nextgov.com

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The NIH has issued about 150 grants totaling more than $36 million for mobile health IT applications so far this year

Nov 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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When consumers pay $4 cash for a prescription, there’s no incentive for pharmacies to go through the hassle of submitting the claim. And that throws a monkey wrench into the claims data collected by insurers and pharmacy-benefit managers.

Nov 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Creating a public health insurance option — perhaps the most contentious idea of last year’s health overhaul debate — is among the possible solutions for reducing federal spending outlined in today’s debt commission report.

Nov 10 2010

New York Times

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More employers are adopting a tiered system to pass on the bulk of those costs to their employees by assigning bigger contributions to workers in top salary brackets and offering some relief to workers who make less money

Nov 10 2010

Reuters

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Novartis AG plans to seek regulatory approval within 18 months for a pioneering tablet containing an embedded microchip, bringing the concept of “smart-pill” technology a step closer.