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Sep 21 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Being dramatically overweight isn’t just unhealthy and socially inhibiting: It’s expensive – a study coming estimates the overall cost of obesity at $8,365 a year for obese women and $6,518 a year for obese men

Sep 21 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medical evidence drives coverage decisions and data about what works for obesity is definitely an evolving area

Sep 21 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Promotion of the less accurate method of calculating heart attack risk expanded the market share of patients who are eligible for cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

Sep 21 2010

informationweek.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Users of Google’s online health data service want more than a place to stash their health data – they want tools to help them take steps to improve their health

Sep 21 2010

Reuters

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The worldwide costs of dementia will reach $604 billion in 2010, more than one percent of global GDP output, and those costs will soar as the number of sufferers triples by 2050

Sep 20 2010

GlobeNewswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Covisint, a Compuware company, today announced that it has acquired DocSite, an award-winning clinical decision support and quality performance management company

Sep 20 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Many reformers undoubtedly believe that passage of the health overhaul law laid the issue to rest. But policy’s wheels continue to turn, and the process is anything but over.

Sep 20 2010

Kaiser Health News

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The swelling ranks of Americans 65 and older — a figure expected to more than double to 89 million by 2050 — have inspired communities and companies to find innovative ways to help older Americans

Sep 20 2010

nextgov.com

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Federal financial incentives designed to spur health care organizations toward meeting meaningful use standards for electronic health records are living up to their name.

Sep 20 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

IS your social network making you fat? Are your friends and family influencing you to smoke and drink more, or to sleep less? Can social networks be harnessed to improve it? These are seminal questions in “network science”

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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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