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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

Jul 23 2010

Information Week

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Cisco finds doctors must alter reimbursement and scheduling practices to gain benefits of videoconferencing

Jul 23 2010

Senior Housing News

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CMS announced a number of changes to Medicare home health payments for 2011 including a 4.75 percent decrease in Medicare payments to home health agencies (HHAs) for calendar year 2011

Jul 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Scientists have found a way to dramatically reduce the erosion of memory and learning ability in mice with a version of Alzheimer’s disease, potentially offering a new approach for tackling the illness in humans

Jul 23 2010

Washington Post

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Negative studies — the ones that fail to find that one therapy is superior to another — usually do not elicit much excitement. But with high costs and patient overtreatment looming large in the health-care debate, negative studies may be getting a closer look.