Headlines Archive for October 2009

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10/30

Initiate Systems Acquires Accenx

10/30

Layoffs reported at Google-backed 23andMe

10/30

5min and HealthCentral Announce New Online Health Video Network

10/30

HHS sees enormous potential in mHealth

10/30

Wireless health has killed the stethoscope

10/30

G.E.’s Bid to Connect Computerized Health Records

10/30

Details on Health Care Bills in House, Senate

10/30

It’s Alive! End-Of-Life Counseling in Health Bill

10/30

Health Care Businesses at Risk in House Overhaul

10/30

The Magic of Financing Health Care Reform

10/30

Republicans respond that gimmicks had been used to hide the measure’s long-term costs.

10/30

House Leaders Unveil Health Bill

10/30

Drug Makers Face Tougher Measures

10/30

Cuts to Health Accounts May Force Patients to Expedite Care

10/30

‘Tribal Chiefs’ Pressure Reid to Spend More on Health-Care Plan

10/29

Coverage Details Hits Taken By Medicaid Programs In State Budget Cuts

10/29

Bringing Medicine Home for Better Care

10/29

Census: Fewer physicians’ offices accept Medicaid than Medicare

10/29

Dallas hospital looks to improve patient-physician communications

10/29

Providers skeptical of meaningful use reimbursement process

10/29

Hospital CEO weighs in: U.S. Healthcare coverage should be privatized

10/29

Lawmakers Target Medicare and Medicaid Fraud

10/29

Business Groups Push Hard Against the Senate Bill

10/29

Pelosi Backs Off Set Rates for Public Option

10/29

Democrats worth hearing

10/29

House to unveil health bill Thursday

10/29

Massachusetts Governor Says U.S. Health Plan Must Cut Costs

10/29

Looking ahead on the health care debate

10/28

New Database to Help Set Payouts by Health Insurers

10/28

Lifting the Veil on Pricing for Health Care

10/28

A Delicate Dance for 2 Health Lobbyists

10/28

Antipsychotic Drugs in Kids Linked to Weight Ga

10/28

Patterns: Number of Doctors Was Overstated, Study Finds

10/28

Chuck Grassley Has a Few Questions for the Health IT Industry

10/28

VeriChip, Diabetes Research Institute partner on glucose monitoring chip

10/28

The WellPoint Revelation

10/28

Health reform’s Chevy tax

10/28

Constitutionality of health overhaul questioned

10/28

AHA urges improvements to HITECH breach notification rule

10/28

Path to health reform paved with trade-offs

10/28

Reid’s Push for Public Option Creates New Barriers for Bill

10/27

Addus HomeCare 5.4M-Share IPO Priced At $10

10/27

Medicare Value-Based Formula Will Be Included in House Reform Bill

10/27

How Government Insurance Would Work

10/27

Long-term care insurance program gains in House

10/27

Industry Years Behind on Testing Approved Drugs

10/27

Medicare Official Key to Spending

10/27

No guarantees on Senate health bill’s public plan

10/27

Remote Patient Monitoring May Lower Heart Failure Risk

10/27

Compare and Contrast:  When doctors are given a report card…

10/27

FDA Review of Adverse Events Caused By Medical Devices Is Inadequate

10/27

XTend Medical Set to Redefine Cancer Detection With Nanotechnology

10/27

European HINAMOX project analyses health impact of nanoparticles

10/27

Details on Senate’s new public insurance proposal

10/27

Can ‘bundled’ payments help slash health costs?

10/27

Political Uncertainty Puts Freeze on Small Businesses

10/27

Reid puts ‘public option’ in health reform again

10/27

Costs Keep Rising: Massachusetts Health Reform

10/26

Fears of health monopoly as Congress urges collaboration

10/26

Government-Run U.S. Health-Care Plan Gains Support With Opt-Out

10/26

Health reform written behind closed doors

10/26

Clock ticking on Democrats’ health care reform

10/26

Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year

10/26

Senate on Verge of Health Bill

10/26

The Cancer Screening Controversy

10/26

Health reform written behind closed doors

10/26

Back-Door Taxes Hit Americans With Public Financing in the Dark

10/26

Government Porkfare Is No Way to End Recession: Caroline Baum

10/26

‘Bioidenticals’ Not FDA-Approved, Contain Estrogen

10/26

The Spending Rolls On – The fiscal 2010 bills grow domestic programs by 12.1%

10/26

AP sources: Health bill may cut employer mandate

10/26

How the U.S. Blew Trillion-Dollar Trade of Century

10/26

Small Business Faces Sharp Rise in Costs of Health Care

10/26

Reid Lacks Consensus on Public Option as House Fine-Tunes Plan

10/23

House Bill Raises, Not Lowers, Health Care Costs

10/23

Medco Takes on Eli Lilly

10/23

A deficit revolt in the Senate

10/23

Lawmakers warm to the public option

10/23

Health care issues: Do doctors back health revamp

10/23

WellPoint Attacks Health Legislation

10/23

Employers Likely to Face Stiffer Penalties in Senate Health Bill

10/23

Offer to Let States Opt Out of Health Plan Gains Support

10/23

Health Care Reform: How Much Will Employers Pay?

10/23

Pharma Payments to Mental Health Group: More to Come?

10/23

Research Uproar at a Cancer Clinic

10/23

The Case for Mandating Health Insurance

10/23

Calpers Bets $1 Billion Bush Aide Can Exploit Health Changes

10/22

Cisco and Tiani Spirit Deploy the Latest Development in Health Care Information-Exchange Technology in Europe

10/22

WGA Acquires RPG Insurance Administrators, Inc.

10/22

Centice Corporation closes on $6.1 million Series C Preferred

10/22

HealthGuru Media Raises $3.2 Million

10/22

GE Healthcare has formed the so-called “GE Healthymagination Fund”, a new $250M equity fund

10/22

3 new prescription diet drugs may soon help obese

10/22

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Firms resist new health rules

10/22

The Public Option Comeback

10/22

Checks for Seniors Face Opposition

10/22

Making Sense of Cancer Screening

10/22

Paterson Administration Fears Cost of U.S. Health Care Overhaul

10/22

GE’s Immelt Sees More Health Acquisitions, Ventures

10/22

Vertical Health Acquires Diabetic-Lifestyle.com and Diabetic-Recipes.com

10/22

Medicare Payments for Doctors: Back to the One-Year Fix!

10/21

House committee votes to repeal antitrust protections for health insurers

10/21

Doctor-Pay Bill Is Shelved in Senate

10/21

HealthPort sees IPO of 6 mln shares at $14-$16 each

10/21

Senate Democrats Hit Snag With Doctor Payment Bill

10/21

In Shift, Cancer Society Has Concerns on Screenings

10/21

GE Plans to Sell Phone-Size Ultrasound Device in 2010

10/21

New malpractice idea in health care debate

10/21

Liberals increase pressure for public insurance plan in health bill

10/21

Health debate stimulates lobbyists

10/21

The Democrats’ fickle-and-dime health strategy

10/21

Dems eye insurance industry’s antitrust protection

10/21

Competition and Health Insurance

10/21

Ill-Conceived Ranking Makes for Unhealthy Debate

10/21

Fight Over Medicare Cuts Plays Into Larger Debate

10/20

Not quite a house call, but not far off

10/20

Congress Wrestles With Yearly Medicare Fee Cuts

10/20

Company Granted Patent for Gathering and Processing Wireless Biometric and Biomechanical Data

10/20

Health insurer to reimburse doctors for Web visits

10/20

Survey: Ripe market for handhelds for home health workers

10/20

Lonza Group AG announced today that it has withdrawn its offer to acquire Patheon Inc

10/20

Revised Formula Puts 1 in 6 Americans in Poverty

10/20

Budget tricks rife in health reform effort

10/20

Health Costs and History

10/20

Rift between Obama and Chamber of Commerce widening

10/20

About that health-reform cost study

10/20

Analysis: Courting Doctors in Health Care Battle

10/20

Treating Dementia, but Overlooking Its Physical Toll

10/20

Basic Medicare Premium to Rise 15% Next Year

10/20

Reid Leads Democrats In Carving Out Favors for States on Health

10/20

Analysis: Courting Doctors in Health Care Battle

10/19

IMS in talks with private equity firms-sources

10/19

Ownership loses its luster: Physicians less likely to go solo

10/19

Dole Poses a Test for IPO Market

10/19

H.I.G. Capital Taking Allion Healthcare Private

10/19

Health Information Exchange Open Source Software

10/19

Workers Will Pay More for Health Care, Consulting Firm Says

10/19

Health insurers’ support of bill seen wavering

10/19

A Roadmap to Health-Care Overhaul by Christmas

10/19

The Catastrophic Option

10/19

Health bills target young-old cost gap

10/19

In health debate, those numbers are just numbers

10/19

CEOs Tally Health-Bill Score

10/19

2.47 trillion dimes: A test for Obama’s pledge to pay for health care

10/19

How to Play the Health-Care Finale

10/19

Gag Order Admission

10/19

Conflicts Over U.S. Health Care Increase With Odds of Passage

10/19

Is speech recognition technology ready for prime time?

10/19

Health Care Bill Makes Sen. Roland Burris Relevant

10/19

Web health sites harness power of social networks

10/19

House, Senate Dems at odds on health care overhaul

10/19

‘Expert Panels’ Won’t Improve Health Care

10/19

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work

10/18

Wellness shift seen in company health plans [benicomp]

10/18

Bederra Corporation Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Texas Mobile Health, Inc.

10/18

Obama Not Insisting On Public Option, Lawmakers Wrestle With Health Reform Details

10/16

Higher Fees for Workers with Health Risks? [benicomp]

10/16

So much for that venture capital recovery

10/16

Doctors begin TV ads pressing Congress on Medicare

10/16

Rockefeller Says Democrats Can’t Tailor Health Care to Snowe

10/16

Democrats Address Their Own Rifts on Health Care

10/16

Bill Boosts Treatments for Smokers

10/16

Funding and Middle-Class Relief Are Keys to Health Bills

10/16

Democrats Weigh Wider Coverage

10/16

Why Health Change is Closer–But Still Elusive

10/16

Influential AMA’s Support for Reform Is Far From Certain

10/16

CBO Estimates House Health Bill at $905B or Less

10/16

Wellness Incentives Could Create Health-Care Loophole

10/16

Senate: Wellness incentives could double for employees

10/15

Health care issues: A premium cost generation gap

10/15

Which Americans Are Uninsured?

10/15

Medicaid and National Health Care Reform

10/15

CTIA Panel: Meet the Wireless Health Leaders

10/15

MindTree Introduces Bluetooth Health Device Solution on Android Platform

10/15

Senate Dems seek higher doctor payments

10/15

Senate may raise physicians’ Medicare payment fees

10/15

Obama Hasn’t Closed the Health-Care Sale

10/15

Unions Say Public Plan Is Needed

10/15

Signs of a Split Emerge in Insurance Industry

10/15

Medicare Advantage Premiums Expected to Rise 25% Next Year

10/15

More MRI Scanners Lead to Excess Back Surgeries, Research Finds

10/15

Critics Say 12 Years Is Too Long to Protect Biotech Drugs From Generics

10/15

Democrats Move to Assure Doctors, Unions on Health-Care Plan

10/14

ACS to develop and maintain the Kentucky Health Information Exchange

10/14

Wellness Programs May Face Regulations To Protect Genetic Information

10/14

mHealth predicted to help care for the elderly

10/14

The Insurance Exchange In Health Reform: Essential Characteristics

10/14

Insurers face blowback after report

10/14

Robotic prostate surgery may raise incontinence, impotence risk

10/14

New Conflict Rules at Medical Journals

10/14

Senate, House Health-Care Legislation: Another Side-by-Side Comparison

10/14

Snowe Suggests Scenario for Government-Run Option

10/14

Integrated Diagnostics Raises $30 Million

10/14

Your Massachusetts Future

10/14

Healthways Acquires HealthHonors To Advance Sustained Engagement in Healthy Behaviors

10/14

Insurers Vow to Fight Baucus Bill Drugmakers, Hospitals Back

10/14

Medical-Device Firms Criticize Tax Proposal

10/14

Interest Groups Battle to Deflect Health Taxes

10/14

Big Jump Seen in Health Costs for Employees

10/14

Unions Spurn White House to Oppose Senate Health Bill

10/14

How Far Should Companies Go to Help Workers Be Healthy?

10/13

Eliza Corporation Completes Acquisition of Sprigley

10/13

By 2020, US will be short 200,000 physicians

10/13

Imaging Providers Plan Rally on Capitol Hill to Protect Reimbursements

10/13

EU to review nanomaterials policies

10/13

Fulcrum Ventures Spins Out EnduraCare

10/13

ABS Capital Invests in Pathology Inc.

10/13

US health reforms could hit other countries

10/13

Employers Are Pushing Ineligible Dependents Out of Plans

10/13

Claritas Capital Covers Its Bases, Looks To Exploit Credit Crunch

10/13

Navigating Medicare With the Pros

10/13

Selling Sickness: How Drug Ads Changed Health Care

10/13

Our view on health care: By dodging tough choices, Congress invites failure

10/13

Current Health Care Legislation Will Not Control Medical Costs, Experts Warn

10/13

Democrats Call Insurance Industry Report Flawed

10/13

Insurers Attack Health Overhaul Before Senate Vote

10/12

Medicaid pay could be cut again when stimulus money runs out

10/12

Retail clinics expanding services more than locations

10/12

XTend Medical Discusses BioHarp Market Potential and Revenue Model

10/12

Insurance Mandates Draw Flak From Both Sides

10/12

Health care issues: End-of-life decisions

10/12

Only 17 venture capital firms raise money in Q3 — fewest in 15 years

10/12

AirWatch Announces Partnership with Homecare Homebase

10/12

States Struggle With Medicaid Issues

10/12

Health Bills In Congress Won’t Fix Doctor Shortage

10/12

Can Senate Finance Bill Bend the Cost Curve?

10/12

From MGMA: Ezekiel Emanuel calls for high-touch healthcare

10/12

Experts doubt White House budget forecast

10/12

Dell Plans to Be ‘Reasonably Active’ in Acquisitions

10/12

The painful, enlightening task of choosing health benefits one by one

10/12

Wait for benefits is 3 years if health care passes

10/12

Lobbyists Fight Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs

10/12

Home-state interests shape health plans

10/12

Health-Reform Winners

10/12

Blackstone plans portfolio IPOs

10/12

Insurers escalate criticism of health overhaul

10/12

Deductibles bigger part health equation this year

10/9

Wireless medical industry squeezed

10/9

International – National Study Reveals mHealth has Vast Appeal in America

10/9

Health Costs Are Crushing Small Businesses

10/9

Should Medicare Benefits Start Later in Life?

10/9

Youth Push for Louder Conversation About Suicide

10/9

House Dems eye tax on insurance firms

10/9

Analysis: Health care progress, now a challenge

10/9

Givaudan, LifeWatch May Move: Swiss Equity Market Preview

10/9

House Moves Closer to Combined Health Measure With Tax Changes

10/9

AT&T inks deal to provide connectivity for GlowCaps

10/9

Fees on Health Industry Could Hit $121 Billion Over 10 Years

10/8

Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey Shows Employer

10/8

National Study Reveals mHealth has Vast Appeal in America

10/8

Advanced Health Media Announces Acquisition of Ephikacy, LLC

10/8

Elderly Fall Injuries Cost $20 Billion in 2006—and Price Is Rising

10/8

Panel: Health 2.0 can impact healthcare costs

10/8

Verizon Wireless announced that it is now offering an application for home health

10/8

Will Health 2.0 startups usher in consumer-driven healthcare?

10/8

VWR International, LLC Acquires OneMed Lab in Finland, Norway and Sweden

10/8

United BioSource Corporation Receives $125 Million Growth Equity Investment

10/8

Scattered Signs Of Buyout Thaw Appear In The Third Quarter

10/8

Left claims 218 in sight for ‘robust’ public plan

10/8

Employers shifting more health costs to workers

10/8

Next: the pill bottle cap with a cell phone

10/8

U.S. private equity fundraising plunges 70 percent

10/8

GOP Points To Democrats’ Concerns on Medicaid

10/8

A Better Way to Health Reform

10/8

Google-Backed DNA Testers Don’t Always Agree on Genetic Profile

10/8

Drug Market Will Top $825 Billion Next Year, IMS Health Says

10/7

Eurotech Unveils New Diabetes Care Management Solution

10/7

Bio scores in health debate

10/7

Google Health inks deals with two insurers, Hello Health

10/7

Wheeze Detector for Quantifying Asthma, Allergy, Emphysema Symptoms

10/7

Workplace Wellness Programs: Good For Health Costs?

10/7

Pending Legislation Increases States’ Role In Health Reform

10/7

E-Prescribing Firm Sees Upswing in Number of Providers Using the Tool

10/7

New certification program moves hospitals toward $34 billion in federal incentives

10/7

Panel: Health 2.0 can impact healthcare costs

10/7

Obama Administration’s Message to Health Care Start-Ups

10/7

4 Senators’ Concerns Reflect Health Care Challenge

10/7

U.S. Losing Ground on Preventable Deaths

10/7

Mandated coverage imperils health bill

10/7

Mobile Medicine: An iPhone for Every Doctor?

10/7

Fees on Health Industry Could Hit $121 Billion Over 10 Years

10/7

3M to Spend $1 Billion on Acquisitions Within a Year

10/7

MDLiveCare First TeleHealth Provider to Launch on the Google Health Platform

10/6

Visionet Systems Acquires eDocSynergy LLC to Service the Health Care Industry

10/6

IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer to Help Drive Down Cost of Personalized Genetic Analysis

10/6

Former Google Health head launches Keas

10/6

Alliance eyes interoperability among personal health solutions

10/6

IBM CEO Sees Big Opportunity In Health-Care Technology

10/6

Insurers Fight Bid to Ease Penalties in Health Bill

10/6

Individual Market Explained

10/6

Examining The Recent Winners And Losers In the Health Reform Debate

10/6

Health Care Issues: Medicare Cuts

10/6

Health-Care Secret Revealed, Again: More Is Not Better

10/6

athenahealth adds BI services with Anodyne acquisition

10/6

Supreme Court Asks for Obama’s Stance on Healthy S.F. Challenge

10/6

Can a City Make Employers Offer Insurance or Pay a Fee?

10/6

Public-option backers press moderate Dems

10/6

Blackstone’s Team Health Files Plans For $100M IPO

10/6

Hospitals Find Way to Make Care Cheaper — Make It Better

10/6

Senate Panel Awaits Report Before Health Vote

10/6

A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health

10/6

Health Insurance Exchanges: Will They Work?

10/6

Projecting Costs of a Health Care Overhaul Is an Inexact Science

10/6

Democrats Try to Balance Cost and Coverage in Health Plan

10/6

Obama Health Reform Republicans Like Is Prevention-Benefit Myth

10/6

Vita Advisors Releases Health Care Issue Briefs

10/5

FDA’s Growing Role Regulating Health 2.0, Health IT

10/5

Medicare use found to vary significantly by location

10/5

IncentOne Introduces Next Generation of Healthy Choice Award(TM) Incentive Solution to Drive Consumer and Provider Engagement

10/5

my1HIE(R) Recognized as Emerging Technology Company of the Year by Automation Alley

10/5

Grassley: Last-minute changes to health bill undermine seniors, veterans and workers

10/5

GE unveils new CARESCAPE 850 monitor

10/5

Discrimination by Insurers Likely Even With Reform, Experts Say

10/5

Issues That Matter to You: Health Care Reform

10/5

States Resist Medicaid Growth

10/5

Opting Out of Medicare

10/5

Medicare Bonuses Motivate More Physicians To E-Prescribe

10/5

Medical-Device Makers Push to Cut New Fees in Health Bill

10/5

Regulators Will Excuse Venture Firms From Rules, Patricof Says

10/5

Health Care Issues: Insurance Market Overhaul

10/5

Health Overhaul Is Drawing Close to Floor Debate

10/5

Telemedicine allows for long-distance diagnoses

10/2

Vets Loving Socialized Medicine Show Government Offers Savings

10/2

Insurance Executive Pay Curbed in Health Bill

10/2

When VCs Need Acquirers More Than Acquirers Need Them

10/2

When Medical Care Goes Retail

10/2

Insurers Drop Some Medicare Plans As Rules Tighten

10/2

In Maryland, Lessons on ‘Bending the Curve’

10/2

Doctors Fight Penalty for Heavy Test Use

10/2

What Portion of Premiums Should Insurers Pay Out in Benefits?

10/2

GE Accelerates India Health Care Push

10/2

Health Plan Advances as Millions Spared From Fines

10/2

US Sen Panel Approves State Health Insurance Plan Measure

10/2

How Cutting Payments for a Drug Could Cost Medicare More

10/1

Survey: States cut Medicaid payments as enrollment climbs

10/1

Proposed Medical Device Tax Would More than Double Taxes Paid By Companies

10/1

For Those Confused About Health Reform – A Fresh Wave Of Primers

10/1

Tax That Targets Health Insurance Innovation

10/1

Stricter self-referral rules may end some physician contracts with hospitals

10/1

HMS Acquires IntegriGuard to Expand Program Integrity Capabilities

10/1

MAJORITY LEADER PROTECTS HOME STATE

10/1

Workplace Wellness Seems to Really Work

10/1

Rate of Enrollment in Medicaid Rose Rapidly, Report Says

10/1

What Makes a Health Plan a ‘Cadillac’?

10/1

Senators reject photo ID for health care benefits

10/1

Work begins on national e-health record network

10/1

Obama Announces $5 Billion in Health-Research Grants

10/1

How the U.S. Government Rations Health Care

10/1

GOP Antiabortion Provision in Health Bill Defeated

10/1

M&A Is Back! Well, Almost. Maybe

10/1

Senate Finance Panel Members Vow to Limit Insurer Tax

10/1

Senate Panel Faces Final Hurdle Over How to Fund Health Plan

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