Gold nanotech breath test may show lung cancer early
Health Guide competitor gets $3M in VC
The GEO Group Announces Acquisition of Just Care, Inc.
Metavante sees success in its provider portal
HealthPort files plan for IPO, eyeing success in ROI market
Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health Care
Employers Lure Spouses Into Wellness Programs to Help Cut Costs
Enzi’s Opposition Strikes Blow to Bipartisan Hopes on Health Care
UnitedHealth: Stick to Your Meds, Get $20 Off Next Prescription
‘Synthetic biology’ holds promise, but doubts simmer
Health care overhaul’s quandary: Costs vs. fairness
Looking Ahead: Runaway Health Costs
Health Bill Would Cut Drug Spending for Many on Medicare, Budget Office Says
Chances of health compromise take another blow
Canada health care _ a brief history
Cardinal Health spinoff signals new direction
eClinicalWorks tapped for prison-based EHRs
Key Democrat suggests party moderates ‘brain dead’
Business group temporarily suspends health ads
Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business
Abortion Is New Front in Health Battle
Till Debt Does Its Part
Bioethicist Becomes a Lightning Rod for Criticism
Dealing With Being the Health Care ‘Villains’
Sonic Healthcare Sees 15% Profit Growth
Grassley Says Deficit Will Limit Scope of Health-Care Overhaul
Cardiologists Crying Foul Over Medicare Cuts Hurt Obama Revamp
Health insurers asked to testify at House hearing
Fiscal Responsibility and Health Care Reform
Wireless sensor company CardioMEMS gets $22.1M in VC
Health Spending Blamed For Ballooning Deficit Projection
The Health Reform Bills Would be Great for the Business of Health Care
Aetna: No Payment for ‘Never Events’ and Certain Other Medical Errors
New senate bill to tackle U.S. nursing shortage
Healthcare Costs Expected to Rise 10.5% in Next 12 Months
Latest CBO Estimates Show Need to Tackle Rising Healthcare Costs
Extreme obesity can shorten people’s lives by 12 years
Walgreen to Start Drug Plan for Caterpillar Employees
Hospitals See $16 Billion Windfall From Overhaul Deal
Kennedy Death Adds Volatile Element to Health Fight
New blood tests find heart attacks quicker, better
HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: REAL REFORM
US health co-op plan in doubt
Step-by-step: FDA wireless health regulation
Sen. Enzi Plays Crucial Role Negotiating Health Care
New Efforts to Insure Young Adults May Beat Reform Proposals to the Punch
Millions May Be Overspent on Purchases Based on Physician Preference
Moving From Volume-Driven Medicine Toward Accountable Care
Health Care Debate Based on Lack of Logic
Real Choice? It’s Off Limits in Health Bills
Aetna Chief Says Public Plan a Distraction
Waxman Takes on Drug Makers Over Medicare
How Tort Reform Cut Florida Workers’ Compensation Costs
Grassley Airs Doubts About Health Bill
OMB Report: Health Care Costs at Heart of Budget Deficit
Health care claim costs expected to rise 10.5 pct
Three Groups that Will Soon Face Higher Medicare Premiums
Online Patient Data May Open New Doors In Medical Research
Should The Homeless Be In Medicaid?
WebMD offers online tools to U.S. Bank’s HSA users
Fortis Healthcare Buys More Hospitals in India
States Worry About Cost Of Medicaid Expansion
Some doctors downsizing to improve care
Health premiums up 95% since 2000; income up 17.5%
No push for national medical-errors database
Senator: Single health care bill a better approach
Health-Bill’s Pace Prompts Calls for Delay
Lieberman Suggests Health Care Reform May Have to Wait
Hospitals See Profits in White House Deal
Beyond Public Plan Worries, Might Reform Boost Some Health Shares?
Grassley Reiterates Opposition to Public Health-Insurance Plan
Many diabetic foot amputations are preventable
Republicans Offer Seniors Health ‘Bill of Rights’
Democrats’ Strategy to Avoid Filibuster Carries Serious Risks
Fact Checks: Estimating The Number Of Uninsured
Scaled-Down Health Bill Is Democrats’ Less-Risky Path
Does Expanding Health Insurance Coverage Improve Health?
Obama Faults GOP in Health Debate
A Basis Is Seen for Some Health Plan Fears Among the Elderly
Autoworkers See Help From $10 Billion Fund in U.S. Health Plan
Pelosi Says ‘No Way’ Health Plan Can Pass Without Public Option
Key Senators Discuss Trimming Health Bill
Analysis: Health care endgame near but uncertain
Availability of Nearly $1.2 Billion in Grants to Help Hospitals and Doctors Use Electronic Health Records
U.S. life expectancy hits a new high of 78
Study: mHealth reduces length, frequency of hospitalization
Report: Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums projected to double by 2020
Hospitalizations in which Patients Leave the Hospital agains Medical Advice
Co-opting Public Plans
New Rx for Health Plan: Split Bill
3M releases stethoscope with Bluetooth capability
Health Interests, Lobbyists Rank High Among Industries Increasing Campaign Contributions
Does Telemonitoring Of Patients – the eICU – Improve Intensive Care?
Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2007
The numbers on the primary care doctor shortage
GoHealthInsurance.com Is an Established Online Health Insurance Exchange
Positive outcomes from federal P4P demos build case for change
Hospital Finances Rebounding
Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
Battle Erupts Over Disclosure on Drug Prices
White House Rethinks How It Sells Health Overhaul
Health Insurers Eye Social Networking
FACT CHECK: White House ignores health concession
House Dems seek info from health insurers
Some Physicians Revamp Their Own Payment Systems In Favor Of Retainers
Medical device lobby spent over $380K in 2Q
Tax subsidies for private health insurance: Who benefits and at what cost?
Statistics Highlight The Looming Doctor Shortage
Researchers propose a reform of the Medicaid DSH program
Montefiore grows its patient-doctor online connection
Co-ops: A ‘Public Option’ By Another Name
Thousands Quit AARP Over Health Reform
Health Care: ‘Public Option’ or Co-op Concept?
HealthPort files for IPO, hoping to follow Emdeon’s success
Healthcare around the world
Income Share for Richest in U.S. Set Record in 2007, Study Says
Cobra Enrollments Double After Subsidy, Hewitt Says
Alternate Plan as Health Option Muddies Debate
Latest results of hospital P4P pilot show improved care
Poor medication adherence costs $290 billion a year
IBM: Cost prohibits proactive healthcare
Medicare Pilot Project Links Hospital Payments To Quality
The Real Issues of End-of-Life Care
Medicare Test Pays for Hospital Performance
Illegal Immigration Enters the Health-Care Debate
Tennessee Experiment’s High Cost Fuels Health-Care Debate
Leading Health Foundations Say Prevention is Vital to Health Systems Reform
Hospital company CEO on public-plan option, tort reform
Dean: Public option a must for health care reform
Democrats Say Obama Shouldn’t Retreat From Public Health Plan
We Don’t Spend Enough on Health Care
HEALTH SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL EXPANDS TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS
Rand’s Policy Options Dashboard
Senator Grassley memo on End of Life
Obama Missteps on Foot Amputation Pay to Surgeons
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Puts Bank Up for Sale
House Reform Bill Would Give Dollar Rewards To States That Pass Tort Reforms
What People Don’t Know about Health Insurance Exchanges
Medication reminder GlowCap goes direct-to-consumer
Senators Investigate Hospital Purchasing
Device May Offer Alternative to Warfarin for Arrhythmia
Obama Proposal to Create Medicare Panel Meets With Resistance
Obama’s Senior Moment
Six Lobbyists Per Lawmaker Work to Shape Health-Care Overhaul
Pacific Biosciences takes $68M as genome sequencing becomes more competitive
Verizon launches healthcare solutions business, data security services
Sonic acquires two labs in US
Aging with GRACE: New health care delivery model improves outcomes, saves money
AHIP Criticizes ‘Exorbitant’ Out-of-Network Charges
Wireless health by the numbers
New RAC Web Site Tells Hospitals What to Expect for Audits
The alternative to euthanasia?
Bloggers debate British healthcare
Medical Imaging: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
End-of-Life Provision Loses Favor
AARP Refutes Obama on Health-Bill Endorsement Claim
HealthVault’s George Scriban talks wireless health
Amid protests, Obama assails insurance companies
FDA Details Access to ‘Investigational’ Drugs
Emdeon shares jump in debut
Survey Finds High Fees Common in Medical Care
Debate heats up on healthcare for illegal immigrants
iSoft purchases BridgeForward
Drug Chief at the FDA Is Accused Of Conflict
Should Employers Be Allowed to Deny Jobs to the Morbidly Obese?
The Health Uprising: A Revolution is Coming
New survey finds 12 million Americans denied coverage by insurance industry
For Major Health Industry Players, Reform’s Positives Outweigh Negatives
The Hidden Danger In Health Care Reform
HFMA Offers New Resources on Medicare Changes
Most Expensive Places For Health Care
Top insurance lobbyist: August key in health drive
Obama pitching health care plan to the insured
Health Debate Isn’t About Health
White House Launches Health-Care Response Site ‘Reality Check’
Death Panel Needed for Health-Debate Hypocrisy: Amity Shlaes
Helicos Machine Maps Professor’s Genome for $50,000
CVS Sees Higher Sales From Coverage for Uninsured
Tax on High-End Health Plans Threatens Wider Group
A Primer on the Details of Health Care Reform
Senators Hear Concerns Over Costs of Health Proposal
Intermedix Corporation Acquires HRA Medical Management, Inc.
World’s first wireless pacemaker gives patient new freedom
Bending the Curve Requires Health Care Reform, Not Just Sick Care Reform: A History Lesson
Consumer protections lost in health care debate
And You Thought a Prescription Was Private
Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan
Documentation, auditing tools target RAC program, pay-for-performance goals
Merge Healthcare to buy Confirma for about $22 mln
Track your wheezing and coughing in Google Health
U.S. Spending on Mental Health Care Soaring
P4P helps safety net hospitals boost care in just three years
Senate Finance Committee’s Cooperatives Can’t Replace Public Option
Health Bill Would Discourage Hiring of Low-Income, Minority, and Disabled Workers
MTS Medication Tech. To Be Acquired In Going Private Transaction For $5.75 Per Share
Senate Health-Care Negotiators Hope to Keep Deal Alive During Break
Obama Open to Creation of Health Cooperatives, DeParle Says
Governors Fear Added Costs in Health Care Overhaul
More Answers to Your Health Reform Questions
France Fights Universal Care’s High Cost
Now it’s a choice: Who pays for mHealth texts?
Health care debate: How many actually uninsured?
BridgeHealth deal adds medical travel options to limited health plans
Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy
White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost
Baucus aims for middle with health care overhaul
Weighty Choices, in Patients’ Hands
Beyond Co-Pay: Surprise Bills at the Doctor’s
As Congress Goes on Break, Health Lobbying Heats Up
Spine Surgery Found No Better Than Placebo
Cardinal Health Names Barrett Chief, Succeeding Clark
Obama promises health overhaul with or without GOP
A Time for Revolutions — The Role of Clinicians in Health Care Reform
Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential
HealthEdge, Concentric Bolster Intra-OpHealthEdge, Concentric Bolster Intra-Op
Baucus: Bipartisan Group Of Finance Committee Members Reach MedPAC Agreement
athenahealth co-founder joins Obama administration
AHIP Statement on Status of Health Care Reform
RAC Audits Have Arrived
Comparing the Three Main Health Reform Bills
EDs Can’t Sustain Care in Current Economic Environment
For Doctors, Rationing Care Is Standard Practice
Number of Americans taking antidepressants doubles
Take Two Digital Pills and Call Me in the Morning
Cardinal Health buys imaging company Biotech
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Biotech drug lobbying war
Rationing Care Is Standard Practice
Will Emphasis on Prevention Bring Health Costs Down?
Military Health System expands behavioral health IT services
The Lobbying Web
BridgeHealth redefines medical travel
CMS’ IPPS Final Rule Includes 2.1% Increase
CMS Announces Payment Rate Cuts for Skilled Nursing Facilities
Parsing Public Plan Proposals
Building a Health Marketplace that Works
Divisions Surface in House on Medicare
Obama Officials: Taxes May Rise to Pay Health Care
Analysis: Some health care numbers don’t tally
Get Medicaid Out Of The Long-Term Care Business
Aetna to Acquire Horizon Behavioral Services
Amedisys Acquires Hospice Agencies in South Carolina and Mississippi
CardioNet eyes diabetes, hypertension, neurology
The space between “clinical” and “fitness”
Cisco on wireless health, alert fatigue and apple carts
Two Sides Take Health Care Debate Outside Washington
US House panel backs 12 years’ protection for biologic drugs
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