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Mar 07 2017

Cost Estimators and Insurance Exchange Consumers

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A paper from the Commonwealth Fund examines use of cost estimators on insurance exchanges.

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Nov 05 2012

InformationWeek

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IBM’s Watson Hits Medical School – Famous supercomputer will interact with students and doctors at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University to learn medical concepts — then it might do some teaching.

Sep 05 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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When doctors suggest that their hip and knee replacement candidate patients view decision tools before they undergo surgery, 38% fewer people went ahead with the knee procedure and 26% fewer agreed to undergo hip replacement.

May 14 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Computer-based clinical decision-support systems offer great opportunities to improve care and reduce costs, but healthcare leaders have to remember who’s ultimately in charge: the human operating the computer.

Apr 16 2012

New York Times

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Express Scripts aims to help patients stay on their meds with a product that predicts who will stop taking prescriptions before the person actually does it.

Mar 05 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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More than one-third of Medicare patients who underwent a prostatectomy, and 90% who had elective insertion of a coronary stent, said their physicians gave them no advance information about more conservative options

Mar 02 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Surgical Patients Not Getting Information on Alternatives

Dec 08 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The federal agency will relax its restrictions on the release of information about individual doctors, reversing a three-decade position that doing so would violate physicians’ privacy rights.

Nov 29 2011

Bloomberg

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IBM’s Watson May Add $2.65 Billion to 2015 Sales, Analyst Says

Nov 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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After a subsequent flurry of counter-complaints, HRSA opened the “bad doc” the database to the public, but with so many restrictions on use of the database, some say it’s virtually useless as a tool

Nov 17 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Hospitals that use a computerized medical-information tool to help doctors make decisions at the point of care have better patient outcomes than those who don’t, according to a new study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Nov 16 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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A consumer advocacy group is calling for full and unfettered public access to the National Practitioner Data Base to help patients identify problem doctors in their states.

Oct 26 2011

Wall Street Journal

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New York’s largest health insurance company agreed Tuesday to publicly disclose more data used to justify premium increases.

Oct 05 2011

Cleveland.com

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Watson computer downs Cleveland Clinic cardiologists in ‘Jeopardy’ demonstration

Sep 23 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Companies Steering Workers To Lower Priced Medical Care

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