Skip to main content
Healthy Skeptic
search
Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts
  • search
Close Search

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Mar 23 2010

AuntMinnie

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Apple’s iPhone med-apps excitement may be dampened somewhat with a recent FDA decision to classify an iPhone image viewing application as a class III device requiring premarket approval

Mar 23 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A requirement tucked into the nation’s massive health care bill:  more than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus

Mar 23 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health care reform leaves Americans with a burning question: How’s this all going to work?  Some questions and answers on the health care bill

Mar 23 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Comprehensive health-care legislation will set in motion a fundamental shift across a sprawling industry, from insurers who will face an expanding list of restrictions to hospitals and doctors confronted with new incentives to practice more-efficient care

Mar 23 2010

Broadband.gov

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Broadband.gov:  Overview of Section 10.1 reviews the potential value that broadband-enabled health IT solutions can unlock

Mar 23 2010

NewScientist

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Researchers at Korea University in Seoul have transmitted data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a person’s arm, between two electrodes placed on their skin 30 centimetres apart.

Mar 23 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The health-care overhaul will make as many as 15 million more Americans eligible for Medicaid nationwide starting in 2014 and will cost the states billions to administer.

Mar 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A Venture Capitalist’s Take On Health-Care Reform

Mar 23 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The future holds potential for a major improvement that capitalizes on modern technology— and its promise goes way beyond doctors’ having to rely on the incomplete or inaccurate memories of their patients.

Mar 23 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Residents of New York State who want to send saliva for DNA testing by 23andMe should do their spitting outside state lines

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 842
  • 843
  • 844
  • 845
  • 846
  • …
  • 1,086
  • Next »

✅ Receive notifications of new posts by email.

About this Blog

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.

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

Research

This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

Headlines

There has been a lot of activity lately in the once-hot field of primary care clinics.  Companies going bankrupt, out-of-business, being bought, merging.  Humana, which is now solely a Medicare...
February 18, 2026
Mental health is a very hot health care investment area.  Talkiatry raised $210 million in new capital for its virtual mental health services which utilizes employed psychiatrists, psychologists and other...
February 13, 2026
Investors can take comfort in Solace Health, which provides “advocates” to members in health plans, as it raises a fresh $130 million in capital, which takes its alleged value over...
February 11, 2026
Two health care companies moving in opposite directions reported financial results.  Hinge Health, which offers musculoskeletal condition services, reported strong revenue and earnings growth and projected continued rapid rises in...
February 11, 2026

Tags

Access (89) ACO (165) Care Management (268) Chronic Disease (216) Comparative Effectiveness (81) Consumer Directed Health (71) Consumers (514) Devices (168) Disease Management (149) Drugs (605) EHRs (145) Elder Care (149) End-of-Life Care (97) FDA (85) Financings (1843) Genomics (80) Government (357) Health Care Costs (1428) Health Care Quality (616) Health Care Reform (1227) Health Insurance (1116) Health Insurance Exchange (162) HIT (478) HomeCare (76) Hospital (490) Hospital Readmissions (79) Legislation (78) M&A (1723) Malpractice (84) Meaningful Use (105) Medicaid (334) Medical Care (346) Medicare (607) Medicare Advantage (80) Mobile (89) Pay For Performance (92) Pharmaceutical (211) Physicians (569) Providers (252) Regulation (72) Repealing Reform (133) Telehealth (79) Telemedicine (325) Wellness and Prevention (316) Workplace (117)

About This Blog

The 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 through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

Categories

  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research

Useful Links

  • Congressional Budget Office
  • Health Affairs

RSS Feed

RSS feed

© 2026 Healthy Skeptic.

  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
Close Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts