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Jun 18 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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But the statewide credentialing (and some suggest privileging) database that Washington state is working on is new territory.

Jun 18 2010

Washington Post

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President Obama will order federal agencies Friday to establish a national “do not pay list” to prevent the government from paying benefits, contracts, grants and loans to ineligible people or organizations

Jun 18 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll of more than 2,000 adults finds the vast majority aren’t using electronic tools to communicate with their doctors

Jun 18 2010

Washington Post

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To address a national shortage of health-care workers, HHS will spend $250 million in programs to increase the number of doctors, nurses and other care providers

Jun 17 2010

New York Times

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When Congress aims to reduce Medicare spending, lawmakers often rely on cutting the prices they pay doctors and hospitals – but a new study shows how that approach may have limited success

Jun 17 2010

Bloomberg

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The U.S. government’s decade-long fight to limit drugmakers’ ability to keep generic medicines off the market may reach “a turning point” soon

Jun 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Today’s graduate medical education system needs to do more to prepare physicians to make a mark on delivery and payment system reform and to increase the value of healthcare.

Jun 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The FDA usually follows their advice. So the track records of those committees, analyzed in a new research note from Concept Capital’s Washington Research Group, are of interest.

Jun 17 2010

Washington Post

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The Food and Drug Administration this week began posting online the results of safety evaluations of recently approved drugs and vaccines.

Jun 16 2010

BusinessWire

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Covidien plc and Somanetics Corporation today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement under which Covidien will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Somanetics Corporation for $250 million, net of cash acquired

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