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Nov 03 2010

Hospital Review

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is looking for quality measures to use for a “Physician Compare” website it will launch by Jan. 1, 2011

Nov 03 2010

InformationWeek

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Texas Health Resources, a 24-hospital health system, uses FaceBook, Twitter and YouTube to drive traffic toward a site it created two months ago promoting its EHR.

Nov 03 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Sensitivity over outsourcing and resistance by American hospitals to sending medical information overseas could thwart efforts to win big contracts.

Nov 02 2010

NCQA

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NCQA is seeking comments on 2011 Draft Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Criteria.

Nov 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A member of the support staff for the United States Preventive Services Task Force has quit over the cancellation of a meeting scheduled for today and tomorrow

Nov 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The percentage of employers with between three and nine workers and which are offering insurance has increased to 59% this year, up from 46% last year

Nov 02 2010

Bloomberg

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McKesson Corp., the biggest U.S. drug distributor, agreed to buy closely held US Oncology Inc. for about $560 million to expand in cancer care and medicines.

Nov 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A test for what is called gait speed is emerging in geriatric research as a validated measure of frailty in elderly people and a predictor of physical and cognitive health

Nov 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Don’t fixate just on Congress. Health-care investors also should also look at the roughly three-dozen governorships up for grabs.

Nov 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health-industry groups are pressing to roll back key provisions in the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul if Republicans recapture the House, but they’re also worried that the party could go too far

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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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