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Jun 02 2010

BusinessWire

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One Call Medical, the nation’s leading provider of diagnostic test scheduling for Worker’s Compensation payers, today announced its acquisition of STOPS, a national leader in high quality transportation and interpretation services

Jun 02 2010

eHealthNews.eu

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A research project that shows heart failure patients who used an interactive telehealth system with motivational support tools at home spent less time in hospital and felt their quality of life had significantly improved

Jun 02 2010

Politico

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Senate Republicans are vowing to challenge Berwick’s nomination to run Medicare and Medicaid — just in time to resurrect the brutal yearlong health reform battle ahead of the midterm election

Jun 02 2010

Washington Post

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“The medical loss ratio and rebate program . . . have the potential to destabilize the marketplace and significantly limit consumer choices if the definitions and calculations are too restrictive,” according to NAIC President

Jun 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A major new study of Medicare heart-failure patients raises the possibility that the drive to reduce the length of time patients spend in hospitals may have backfired

Jun 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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At least a third of U.S. companies offer financial incentives, or are planning to introduce them, to get their employees to lose weight or get healthier in other ways.

Jun 02 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Following the implementation of an organization-wide bar code scanning process, the medication error rate decreased to 0.3 errors per 1,000 patient days, a 75% reduction.

Jun 02 2010

Bloomberg

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Tenet Healthcare Corp. said it’s in talks about a possible purchase of Healthscope Ltd., Australia’s second-largest hospital operator

Jun 01 2010

StreetInsider.com

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Centene Corporation’s South Carolina subsidiary, Absolute Total Care, has completed the purchase of Columbia-based Carolina Crescent Health Plan (CCHP), the state’s largest non-profit Medicaid managed care organization

Jun 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Medical-device maker Medtronic Inc. disclosed that it made payments of more than $15.7 million in royalties and consulting fees to U.S. doctors in the first quarter