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Aug 04 2010

NHBR.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Pay-for-performance may be coming to New Hampshire’s health-care industry. Under a five-year pilot program health-care providers will be compensated based on their quality of care instead of the current fee-for-service model.

Aug 04 2010

Politico

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Don’t bother trying to count up the number of agencies, boards and commissions created under the new health care law. Estimating the number is “impossible,” a recent Congressional Research Service report says, and a true count “unknowable.”

Aug 04 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The more effectively patients and physicians can communicate the better healthcare will be. And that includes better electronic communications, such as by e-mail

Aug 04 2010

Fiscal Times

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Free Health Clinics: A Stand-In for Costly Medical Care

Aug 04 2010

next.gov

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Government Health IT reports that while the new certification and standards final rule from the ONC do allow some additional flexibility for how patient information is entered and used, the guidelines may not be specific enough.

Aug 04 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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On July 30, CMS issued the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final rule to update policies and rates for fiscal year (FY) 2011, which maintains long-standing CMS policy and implements some provisions of the PPACA

Aug 04 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Food and Drug Administration proposed shoring up medical-device approval rules that have been criticized as lax and inconsistent by consumer advocates and the agency itself

Aug 04 2010

Bloomberg

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Medical device makers face new safety rules under a revamped program laid out by U.S. regulators that may help speed approval of products from condoms to CT scanners

Aug 04 2010

New York Times

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Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box

Aug 04 2010

Kaiser Health News

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A Senate effort to extend federal help to states struggling with swelling Medicaid rolls hit a road block yesterday when a crucial vote to move the measure forward was delayed until at least Wednesday