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Jul 26 2010

US News

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Provisions in the health reform law would set up and evaluate different models of coordinated care delivery, including the ACO’s and medical homes – ideally, proponents say, ACOs and medical homes would join forces for the greatest impact

Jul 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s private-equity unit are in talks to buy medical supply distribution company Harrington Holdings Inc. for about $850 million including deb

Jul 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Under current procedures, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pay for more than 7,000 types of physician services, identified in codes developed by the American Medical Association. But the term “complicated conversations” doesn’t apparently come up.

Jul 26 2010

New York Times

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The legislative battle over the health care overhaul ended months ago, but it is hard to tell from the intense effort now under way by insurance companies to retool a critical provision.

Jul 26 2010

Fiscal Times

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A new study from the American Enterprise Institute suggests many patients are still using pricey brand-name drugs long after comparable generics become available.

Jul 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Most Americans know the overhaul is designed to cover the uninsured, a decades-long goal of Democrats. But it also represents a change in how the government spreads its social safety net underneath Americans

Jul 26 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Wherever there is third-party payment, the goal of innovation is to produce more products that qualify for reimbursement, even if the effects on patient outcomes are only marginal. Wherever there is no third-party reimbursement, innovators are focused on ways to lower cost and raise quality.

Jul 26 2010

eHealthNews.eu

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The NEUGRID – neuroscientists could use the grid-based research e-Infrastructure to identify neurodegenerative disease markers through the analysis of 3D magnetic resonance brain images

Jul 26 2010

New York Times

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One of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.

Jul 26 2010

Fiscal Times

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After being touted as the ultimate role model, Britain’s National Health Service, a fiscal failure, is about to be radically decentralized