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Aug 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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From a tiny eye telescope to microscopic health data on the surface of contact lenses to advances in cancer treatments, medical devices continue to get smaller and smaller

Aug 11 2010

Washington Post

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Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a prevention effort that has become a national public health priority

Aug 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A second federal bill seeks to “clarify the application of EHR payment incentives” for multi-campus hospitals in the meaningful use subsidy requirements

Aug 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The $26 billion legislation provides $16 billion for Medicaid and $10 billion to avert teacher layoffs. It is funded by cutting some food-stamp payments that were raised by the stimulus bill, and by limiting the foreign tax credits

Aug 10 2010

Information Week

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A bill proposing to extend Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) financial incentives for e-health record use by mental health professionals has been introduced into the U.S. Senate, complementing similar legislation introduced in the U.S. House

Aug 10 2010

timesfreepress.com

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Dialysis centers are about to get hit with financial penalties — up to 2 percent of their reimbursements — if they fail to reach certain quality benchmarks, starting in 2012

Aug 10 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The National Health Services Corps has gotten an infusion of more than $1 billion to incentivize young primary-care physicians to practice in underserved areas – keeping the recruits once their service contracts are up will be the hard part

Aug 10 2010

Texas Tribune

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ACOs require a strong financial base and a degree of risk — that’s why doctors need hospitals as partners. They also demand a broad range of providers — that’s why hospitals need to bolster their ranks with more doctors.

Aug 10 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Thousands of nurses and geriatric specialists—many of them minorities—will be trained for the provider workforce under $159.1 million in federal grants under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Aug 10 2010

SFGate

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, said the reforms going into effect this year will have little to no impact on employer health costs