Headlines Archive for November 2009

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11/30

Brand ‘Biologics’ Retain Edge in Bills

11/30

Defensive medicine costs

11/30

Medicare fraudsters rake in billions

11/30

In health-care reform, no deficit cure

11/30

Senate ‘Horse Trading’ Begins as Democrats Take Up Health Bill

11/30

Fighting the Wrong Health Care Battle

11/30

Cancer Deaths Drop in Europe as Smoking Rates Fall, Study Finds

11/30

Turbulence ahead: Senate opens health care debate

11/30

Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage

11/30

Even if health bill passes soon, wait for reforms could be long

11/30

Health Care Savings Could Start in the Cafeteria

11/30

A Tax on Nips and Tucks Angers Patients, Surgeons

11/30

Emerging Market IPO Returns Rout Developed Nation

11/30

The Treatment of Kenny Farnsworth: For much of a decade, he called 911 routinely

11/27

Bill Complicates Drive to Add Primary-Care Doctors

11/27

Health, climate bills seen to stifle hiring

11/27

Trying to Explain a Drop in Infant Mortality

11/27

Would Adding Residency Slots Solve the Primary-Care Shortage?

11/27

Should Medical Tourists Be Charged More Than Locals for Surgeries in India?

11/27

Big Pharma Sells Out

11/27

Diabetics in U.S. May Double in 25 Years, Tripling Health Costs

11/27

White House says health-care bills contain cost-cutting remedies

11/27

Taking the Health Care Debate to the Mall

11/27

Insurer Aims to Alter Health-Care Fee Model

11/27

Will a Move Away from Fee-for-Service Control Health Costs?

11/27

Health Care Rationing, American-Style

11/27

Obama Backs Senate on Health Bills’ Disparities

11/25

Medicaid enrollment grew by 2 million in first half of 2009

11/25

To blunt nurse shortage, hospitals must address nurse turnover

11/25

Health Reform’s Impact on Premiums: Winners, Losers And, For Many, A Question Mark

11/25

Numerous Grant Programs Fatten Cost of Health Care Reform

11/25

New Study Finds MRSA on the Rise in Hospital Outpatients

11/25

U.S. Census Data Indicate Physician Workforce May Be Smaller, Younger Then Expected, Study Says

11/25

Intel Health Guide lands varied customer base

11/25

For the fourth straight year, medical liability insurance premiums have eased nationwide

11/25

Intelligent Nanotech Biosensor to Improve Blood Testing for Diabetics

11/25

HHS to invest $80 million to grow HIT workforce

11/25

Can Drug & Device Makers Innovate Themselves to Extinction?

11/25

‘Boutique’ patients pay for better access to doctors

11/25

‘Illegal health reform’? Not quite.

11/25

When Hospital Fees Catch You Off Guard

11/25

False Alarm on Abortion

11/25

Health-Care Bill May Be Stalled by Year-End Legislative Crunch

11/24

HealthSmart Completes Recapitalization to Support Continued Growth

11/24

Health care sector is feeling just fine, thank you

11/24

Omnicell Introduces Anywhere RN for Remote Medication Management to Improve Clinician Efficiency in Hospitals

11/24

Humana eyes acquisitions in complementary areas

11/24

Reform Health Care by Re-empowering Consumers

11/24

Public Database Is Urged to Monitor Drug Safety

11/24

Oxygen Rules Pinching Patients

11/24

Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Backs Investment in Prevention

11/24

Industry Influence on Comparative-Effectiveness Research Funded through Health Care Reform

11/24

White House, AARP Seek to Capitalize on Senate Health-Care Vote

11/24

Lieberman Digs In on Public Option

11/24

A difference of opinions on mammograms

11/24

OptumHealth Acquires PPC Worldwide to Serve Growing Global Demand for Mental Health and Wellness Support

11/24

Nine Percent of Surgeons Have Made ‘Major’ Errors Recently

11/24

The health care debate is fundamentally a debate about values

11/23

$10B loan program targeted at small medical groups

11/23

Advocacy Groups May Reshape Message During Holidays

11/23

Health Care with Michael Porter

11/23

The End of HSAs

11/23

Laying the Groundwork

11/23

An Act of Congress? More Like Multiple Acts of Insanity. – Part II

11/23

An Act of Congress? More Like Multiple Acts of Insanity. – Part I

11/23

Democrats Show Signs of Disunity as Senate Health Debate Looms

11/23

Health ‘reform’ that burdens our young

11/23

Pressure on Region’s House Democrats to Back Health Care Overhaul

11/23

Hospitals and EMRs: Stimulating a connection

11/23

Lobbyists spending big to shape health care debate

11/23

Listing the New Taxes in the Senate Health-Care Bill

11/20

Republicans Blast ‘Bait and Switch’ Health Bill – Onus on States for Medicaid

11/20

Chronically Wounded Patients Could Be Treated at Home Via Wireless Link

11/20

Business Sours on Overhaul as Legislation Veers to Left

11/20

HealthPort shelves IPO; weak financials cited

11/20

Study points to pitfalls of linking doctors’ pay with surveys

11/20

Meaningful use rule ‘on target’ for end of year

11/20

Why Health Care Reform Is Vulnerable to Smart Analytics

11/20

UnitedHealth buys ScriptSwitch for £50m

11/20

White House at Odds With Bishops Over Abortion

11/20

Tunstall Launches Next-Generation Digital Telecare Solutions

11/20

Louisiana’s Landrieu Wins U.S. Aid as Senate Health Vote Looms

11/20

Health bill helps wavering Louisiana senator

11/20

Teamsters buck Senate health bill over tax

11/20

Medicare’s payments to physicians and the budgetary effects of H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physicians Payment Reform Act of 2009

11/20

House moves to protect doctors from Medicare cuts

11/19

Physician shortage drives telemedicine market

11/19

Mobile health monitoring on Gartner’s top 10 trends list

11/19

The Senate’s Health Care Calculations

11/19

Obama Health-Care Battle in Congress Portends Fight in Court

11/19

The Senate’s Sense on Savings

11/19

A Possible Health-Care Trade-Off

11/19

Showdown Set for Health Bill

11/19

White House backs off cancer test guidelines

11/19

Aetna Cutting About 625 Jobs, Will Pare More in 2010

11/19

The Breast Brouhaha

11/19

Andy Grove’s Prescription for Health Care

11/19

Senate Health Plan Seeks to Add Coverage to 31 Million

11/19

Senate, House Democratic Health Bills Compared

11/19

Senate Democrats’ Proposed Health-Care Legislation: Highlights

11/19

Rising Prices of Drugs Lead to Call for Inquiry

11/18

Germany Strains to Fund Health Care for All

11/18

New initiatives take an aggressive stance against childhood obesity

11/18

Prevention Effort Targets Pre-Diabetics

11/18

Obesity Wipes Out Decades of Efforts to Reduce Threats to Heart

11/18

Economists’ Letter to Obama on Health Care Reform

11/18

Preventive Services Task Force: Calm in a cancer storm

11/18

Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting

11/18

Mainstay of the Global Workforce – 40-65 Year Olds – Hit Hardest by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

11/18

Conundrum:  Heart Pump Shows Promise

11/18

How a medical revolution may transform Northern Virginia

11/18

The Democrats’ ‘doc fix’ for Medicare payments would shock Madoff

11/18

A Genetics Company Fails, Its Research Too Complex

11/18

Private-Equity Funding Plunges 62% at Calpers Amid Fee Review

11/18

Long-Term Care Plan to Be in Bill

11/18

Small firms scrapping, scaling back health plans

11/18

Harris Corporation Acquires Patriot Technologies

11/17

Just one heart attack leads to 725 X-rays

11/17

Broadlane Acquires Healthcare Performance Partners

11/17

Health care issues: Shortage of doctors

11/17

New technology is helping elderly patients and those with chronic diseases

11/17

Work-Related Injuries Underreported

11/17

Cutting Budget Deficit ‘Foremost’ in Obama’s Mind, Emanuel Says

11/17

Going High-Tech to Track Alzheimer’s Patients

11/17

Butt Out: Some Smokers Quit With a Computer’s Help

11/17

Latest IPO Filing Grades? [Team Health Holdings]

11/17

Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011

11/17

Survey suggests decline in smoking has ‘hit a wall’

11/17

Deep divisions linger on health care

11/17

Study Foresees an Increase in Obesity and Its Costs

11/17

In Reversal, Panel Urges Mammograms at 50, Not 40

11/17

Time Crunch Looms for Health Bill

11/17

Heart Patients Get Imaging Tests That Increase Radiation Dose

11/17

Physician Limits on Treatment and Controls on Care

11/17

Commentary: Wider problems for medical schools

11/17

AP POLL: Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Bill

11/17

Treating the Patient or Satisfying the System

11/17

Study Sees Trauma-Care Gap

11/17

The virtual doctor visit

11/16

New study says costs rise under health bill

11/16

Report: Bill would reduce senior care

11/16

Blumenthal: Tear down walls that block information exchange

11/16

For Men at 40, Risk of Cardiac Death 1 in 8

11/16

Obamacare: Buy now, pay later

11/16

Turning Medicare into an income redistribution program

11/16

Humana’s CIO sees technology playing a vital role in improving medical care

11/16

Health insurers could be allowed to bypass some key reforms

11/16

Reid’s Health Overhaul Bill Likely to Split Senate Democrats

11/16

AP Poll: Fine print in health care prompts worries

11/16

A $300 billion deception

11/16

Law Seeks to Ban Misuse of Genetic Testing

11/16

Lieberman Independence Hinders Democrats’ Health-Care End Game

11/16

Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform

11/16

Immigration and health House measure omits Senate panel’s legal test

11/16

Pragmatically compromising or selling out?

11/16

The INFLUENCE GAME: Front Group Fights Health Bill

11/16

Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records

11/16

Axelrod: Health Bill Abortion Clause Would ‘Change Status Quo’

11/16

Report details billions lost in Medicare fraud

11/16

Healthport and Second-Busiest 2009 U.S. IPO Week

11/16

The Rationing Commission

11/16

House health bill includes Medicaid relief for states

11/13

Number of Insured Varies by Bill

11/13

Army To Expand Mobile Telehealth Program for Vets With Brain Injuries

11/13

Insurer enlists employees to fight health reform

11/13

G.O.P. Resurrects ‘Flip-Flop’ for Health Care

11/13

Health Reform: ‘Opt-Our’ may prove unhealthy

11/13

Safety-Net Health Care Facilities Cite Lack of Capital as Barrier to EHR Implementation

11/13

Orszag Says U.S. Health-Care Overhaul Will Be Enacted This Year

11/13

Downward Trend in Smoking Rate Stalls

11/13

Senator Kerry Backs Bill To Help Small Practices Implement EHRs

11/13

Health-Bill Disclosure Rule Is Resisted

11/13

Half done on health reform

11/13

Reid Weighs Rise in Medicare Tax

11/13

Doctor Shortage to Spur Delays, Crowded ERs in Health Overhaul

11/12

Keeping Pacemakers Safe from Hackers

11/12

New Salvo Fired as Unions Battle Over Workers

11/12

Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known

11/12

The AMA and ObamaCare: Solution or the Problem?

11/12

Pelosi Caves to the Right to Get Health-Care Bill

11/12

Health care issues: Controlling medical costs

11/12

Health-Bill Battle Won’t Get a Recess

11/12

AP sources: Reid eyes payroll tax hike on wealthy

11/12

U.S. State Revenue Decline Will Go On, Governor’s Report Says

11/12

. . . And a Buried Tort Bomb

11/12

FDA, Pharma Meet on Web Posts

11/12

Interoperability Solution for HIE Initiatives

11/12

Study: Healthcare isn’t ready for new security rules

11/12

10 Wireless health clinical trials

11/12

FirstCare strengthens lead in absence management market with acquisition of Active Health Partners (AHP)

11/12

Caring.com Raises $10 Million

11/11

Cleveland company developing Google-like service to quickly analyze electronic medical records [explorys]

11/11

Costs Surge for Medical Devices, but Benefits Are Opaque

11/11

Congress Has History of Reversing Cuts

11/11

AMA opposes military gay policy

11/11

Reid Says Health Bill Will Be Done by Christmas

11/11

Kennedy’s disability plan could snag health bill

11/11

‘Opt-Out’ Proposal Puts State Leaders to the Test

11/11

Government Can’t Marshal Doctors Who Aren’t There

11/11

Best Buy leaps into fitness equipment

11/11

Legislative malpractice practiced

11/10

Quantros acquires MediQual unit from CareFusion

11/10

Walgreens sees large increase in e-prescribing

11/10

AMA President Warns of Access Crisis if SGR Fix Fails

11/10

Wireless monitor makes its debut in EU – Toumaz

11/10

Pay-for-Performance Participation Can Be Pricey for Docs

11/10

The House Bill Could Have Been Avoided

11/10

CVS Caremark, Generation Health to Expand PGx Testing to Millions

11/10

Logitech International, a leader in PC video communication, today announced that it has agreed to acquire privately held LifeSize Communications of Austin, Texas for $405 million in cash

11/10

UnitedHealth Group’s Ingenix acquiring CareMedic

11/10

The Man Who Made Pelosi Cry ‘Uncle’

11/10

Trinity Health Selects Seven Elsevier Clinical Decision Support Solutions for its Multiple Facilities In Seven States

11/10

Obama Seeks Revision of Plan’s Abortion Limits

11/10

PIA Says Inclusion of Agents in House Healthcare Bill is Positive, But Concerns Remain

11/10

‘Fuzzy math’ could drive health bill cost higher

11/10

Fighting Obesity May Take a Village

11/10

Abortion Issue Threatens U.S. Health-Care Overhaul Legislation

11/10

‘The Time is Now for Better Pain Care for Patients’

11/10

JumpStart Invests in Checkpoint Surgical

11/10

Screening: Many Doctors Do Unneeded Pap Smears, Study Finds

11/10

Blunted needles

11/10

Battle With Heart Disease Moves to the Doctor’s Office

11/10

Bill Clinton meets with Senate Dems on health care

11/10

Democrats Raise Alarms Over Costs of Health Bills

11/10

For doctor, the Senate is a bitter pill

11/10

Effort to Assist Older Voters May Raise Costs for the Young

11/9

QHR to Acquire Clinicare Corporation

11/9

Medical Industry Grumbles, but It Stands to Gain

11/9

Obama: It’s Senate’s turn on health care

11/9

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

11/9

Abortion an obstacle to health-care bill

11/9

Health Bill Faces Senate Heat

11/9

15 Million Americans at Greatest Risk of Disease/Death Have Been Left Out of Health Reform Debate

11/9

Blue Shield of California Receives Awards for Promoting Healthier Workplace

11/9

Insurers, Drugmakers Turn to Senate for Health-Bill Changes

11/9

Maybe a New Day for Doctors’ Pay

11/9

A high price for health reform

11/9

The Lords of Entitlement

11/9

Labels and Gay Benefits in Health Bill

11/9

Small Business Crunches Numbers

11/9

India Focuses on Education and Health

11/9

If Anything, the Senate’s Task Is Trickier

11/9

Pfizer, WellPoint Count on Senate to Soften House Health Bill

11/9

Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House

11/9

Wider Oversight Looms for Insurers

11/9

Revolt at the American Medical Association over health care bill endorsement

11/9

Health care jobs stable

11/9

Health-care reform, GOP-style

11/9

Covisint and Carefx Partner to Deliver Complete Interoperability Solution for Health Information Exchange (HIE) Initiatives

11/6

Fresenius buys Nashville EHR business

11/6

60 Plus leader: Senior ‘tsunami’ coming

11/6

SPECIAL REPORT – Are Doctors What Ails U.S. Healthcare?

11/6

Obamacare’s nasty surprise

11/6

Health Care Issues: Age and Sex Rating

11/6

Details on health care bills in House, Senate

11/6

CVS Investors Pummel Stock on CEO’s Caremark Strategy Surprises

11/6

Obama Delays Capitol Hill Pitch on Health Care

11/6

Unemployment rate breaks through 10%

11/6

Democrats wary of health-bill defections

11/6

The Return of the Inflation Tax

11/6

Obama’s Remarks on the A.M.A. and AARP Endorsements

11/6

Democrats Try to Shore Up Support as House Health Vote Nears

11/6

Telemedicine: Good Innovation Hampered by Outdated Policies

11/6

HIT vendors call for clarity, consistency on meaningful use

11/5

IMS agrees to $4 bln deal, biggest LBO this year

11/5

Company sequences whole human genome for $1,700

11/5

Abortion Deal in Health Bill Sets Off Haggling in Congress

11/5

The Coming Shortage of Doctors

11/5

GreatCall Buys MobiWatch

11/5

House Prepares to Vote on Health Care, Undaunted by Elections

11/5

To Their Own Devices

11/5

Superior Global Solutions, Inc. Acquires HTI Technologies, Inc.

11/5

Democrats’ plan to help ‘uninsurables’ questioned

11/5

Republican Wins May Make Democrats Cautious on Obama Agenda

11/5

How Biofuel Leaked Into the House Health Bill

11/5

Health plans owned by doctors, hospitals are disappearing

11/5

House Democrats Push for Saturday Health Vote

11/5

InferX Corporation Completes Merger with The Irus Group

11/5

Financial incentives drive physicians to adopt technology

11/4

eHealth, Inc. Announces Partnership With CareCounsel, a Leader in Health Advocacy Programs

11/4

Philips betting on remote healthcare for future

11/4

Employer Contributions Shifting in Consumer-Driven Health Plans

11/4

MedPAC Members Characterize RBRVS System as Subjective, ‘Deeply Flawed’

11/4

Value of prevention debated as part of U.S. health reform

11/4

Philips: $148.3B global home healthcare market

11/4

Prediction: Mass market for mHealth sensors

11/4

Roche inks deal with sleep monitoring start-up

11/4

Plan Creates New Program to Pay for Long-Term Care

11/4

At Top Schools, More Than Half the Profs Have Industry Ties

11/4

After GOP Victories, Managed Care Stocks Rally

11/4

House Democrats clear the way for health care vote

11/4

What the experts say about controlling spending

11/4

Health bills too timid on cutting costs, experts say

11/4

Making the young pay for health reform

11/4

House Democrats Clear the Way for Health Care Vote

11/4

House Bill Would Assure Workers Paid Sick Days

11/4

Health Bills Aim a Light on Doctors’ Conflicts

11/4

Health Care Debate Focuses on Legal Immigrants

11/4

G.O.P. Counters With a Health Plan of Its Own

11/4

Reid Suggests Congress May Miss Obama Deadline for Health Bill

11/4

With Its NetDelivery Software, Interbit Data Enables Fast and Efficient Exchange of Data

11/3

Searching for Themes in the M&A Market

11/3

Democrats Say House Bill Cuts Premiums for Many

11/3

Hospitals Cite Worry on Fees in Health Bill

11/3

More insurers are paying for alternative remedies

11/3

AP sources: House health bill totals $1.2 trillion

11/3

2 tough health care issues remain in the House

11/3

The Incentives Aren’t to Help You

11/3

Flash Points Linger in Health Bill

11/3

Cigna’s Reports Show Gap in Spending for Members, Senator Says

11/2

CareTech Solutions To Acquire IGCN

11/2

U-M Research Shows Chronically Ill Patients Might Be Happier if They Give Up Hope

11/2

GOP Set to Propose Its Own Health Bill

11/2

Med, Nursing Schools Teaching Alternative Remedies

11/2

Beware the health insurance police

11/2

Supply-Side Ideas, Turned Upside Down

11/2

Mandates and Affordability

11/2

The Worst Bill Ever

11/2

Health care plan hits rich with big tax increases

11/2

Medicare Eases Next Year’s Cuts for Heart, Cancer Specialists

11/2

Private Equity IPOs Slump as Goldman, Citigroup Can’t Sell AEI

11/2

Senate, House Move Closer on Health Bills as Battle Goes Public

11/1

The Magic of Financing Health Care Reform

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