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Jul 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Genetic-testing companies that promised to help consumers understand their health risks instead offered contradictory and misleading results, government investigators said.

Jul 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Patients last year averaged a record of four hours and seven minutes spent in the nation’s emergency departments—a four minute increase over 2008 wait times, and a 31-minute increase since reports were made available in 2002

Jul 22 2010

Healthcare IT News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Ingenix has agreed to acquire Picis Inc., a Wakefield, Mass.-based provider of healthcare software for high-acuity areas of the hospital

Jul 22 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

While there is still room for growth in the U.S. health insurance industry, international markets may play a large role in the expansion strategies of some of the largest companies in the near future.

Jul 22 2010

Politico

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Technology companies are ramping up their health care businesses ahead of an expected influx of equipment orders from hospitals and doctors who want to start using electronic health records

Jul 22 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

GE’s health-care unit has asked the FCC to allow devices that transmit patients’ vital signs to share the 2360MHz to 2400MHz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, now used by Chicago-based Boeing to test the safety of planes

Jul 22 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

13 makers of genetic tests sold directly to consumers told by U.S. regulators that their products may be medical devices needing federal approval

Jul 22 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Patients will find it easier to appeal the denials of health insurance claims under rules being issued by the Obama administration, which is trying to boost political support for the new health-care law by highlighting advantages for consumers

Jul 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

It’s no secret that consumer health care is hot, but Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC’s proposed £2.5 billion offer for SSL International PLC has just slapped a massive 18.6x Ebitda multiple on the sector

Jul 22 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If Massachusetts is a harbinger – and all evidence indicates it is – the new federal health overhaul legislation is headed for serious trouble