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Jul 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Programs providing home visits that can ultimately reduce pre-term births and the need for emergency room visits are being awarded $88 million from the federal government.

Jul 23 2010

nextgov

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Meaningful Use: Some Republican lawmakers raised what is a basic question when creating a new policy: How tough do you make requirements to get federal funding? How high should the bar be set?

Jul 23 2010

Fiscal Times

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The new health reform law will advance the effort to “eradicate” differences in how mental health treatment is covered by insurers.

Jul 23 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Patients will find it easier to appeal the denials of health insurance claims under rules issued today by the Obama administration

Jul 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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