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Sep 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Patients are willing to use remote or mobile monitoring devices to transmit health info right to their physicians — they just don’t want to pay much for them

Sep 08 2010

eweek.com

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The Food and Drug Administration is looking into whether smartphone apps that allow patients to monitor their vital signs wirelessly should earn FDA approval before implementation.

Sep 08 2010

New York Times

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Researchers have calculated that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year are not with a patient’s primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms

Sep 08 2010

The Hill

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The Department of Health and Human Services has released for health plans seeking a waiver from the healthcare reform law’s restrictions on plans’ ability to place annual limits on essential health benefits.

Sep 08 2010

Fiscal Times

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Faced with premiums that continue to rise faster than inflation, employers are opting to load more of that cost onto employees, whose bargaining power evaporated in the Great Recession

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The number of healthcare entities reporting breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals has crossed the 150 mark, nearly one year after the first such breach was reported.

Sep 08 2010

Reuters

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Silverfleet plans $800mln Sterigenics sale

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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How many times do you have to get permission from patients before you use their medical data for research? From the patients’ point of view, the answer is “every time,” a new study suggests

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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With healthcare reform introducing anywhere from 20 to 40 million new patients into the healthcare system, hospitals must address self-pay balances as a way of controlling bad debt.

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A trip to a retail clinic or urgent care center can substitute for a trip to the emergency department for between 13.7% and 27.1% of patients who don’t require hospital level of care, “with a potential cost-saving of $4.4 billion annually.”

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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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