Tuesday 6 December 2011

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UK leader wants health service to help industry
The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Britain's publicly-funded National Health Service should share all patient data anonymously with private health care companies to boost innovation in a key UK industry, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday. Cameron's proposal was ...
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Feds to allow use of Medicare data to rate doctors, hospitals and other health ...
Washington Post
Compiled in an easily understood format and released to the public, medical report cards could become a powerful tool for promoting quality care and reducing waste. "This is a giant step forward in making our health care system more transparent," said ...
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BSI Healthcare Services Leverages Expertise, Creates New Focused Organization
MarketWatch (press release)
5, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- On the heels of last week's announcement that Business Strategy, Inc. was acquired by an Atlanta-based firm, comes today's announcement that Business Strategy's healthcare division is now BSI Healthcare Audit Services ...
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Health care, EI dominate Atlantic premiers conference
CANOE
Health care dominated the talks because the current federal-provincial deal expires in 2014. The feds will provide $27 billion to the provinces for health care this fiscal year, which covers about 20% of the provinces' health costs. ...
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US healthcare stocks hit by Medicare fears
Financial Times
By Ajay Makan in New York US healthcare stocks are extremely volatile amid fears that government healthcare providers will limit expensive heart, spine and orthopaedic treatments from the start of next year. Hospital manager Tenet Healthcare tumbled ...
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Nexus Achieves VMware Healthcare Specialization
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Nexus IS, Inc. ("Nexus") today announced that it has successfully completed the VMware Healthcare specialization. This achievement demonstrates that Nexus is committed to becoming an expert in VMware virtualization and cloud solutions for Healthcare ...
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Saint Thomas Health, Capella Healthcare Agree to Create Innovative Equity ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec 05, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Capella Healthcare and Saint Thomas Health have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to create an innovative venture that will improve healthcare throughout Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, ...
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Insurance exchange unlikely to lower health plan costs, consultant says
The Connecticut Mirror
By Arielle Levin Becker The state's health insurance exchange, a key part of federal health reform, is intended to give individuals and small businesses more options for buying insurance. But for many people in Connecticut, the new marketplace might ...
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Health-care industry ripe for growth
Vancouver Sun
By Derek Sankey, For Postmedia News December 5, 2011 Brian Evans helped to lead US home health- care provider BrightStar Care into Canada last month. The latest entrant into the increasingly competitive field of home health-care proves the industry is ...
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Tenet Healthcare Shares Popped: What You Need to Know
Motley Fool
What: Shares of hospital operator Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC ) jumped as much as 12.4% on rather average trading volume. So what: Last week, the American College of Cardiology reported that Medicare and Medicaid will make it harder to get approval for ...
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Minnesota's health-insurance test site goes live
MinnPost.com
5, 2011 At the Washington Post's Wonkblog, Sarah Kliff encourages readers to take a look at Minnesota just-posted health insurance exchange website: "The best way to get a handle on the concept of a health insurance exchange is to see what one looks ...
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Putting Health Care Analytics in the Hands of Patients
iHealthBeat
Despite the health information revolution and health care consumerism that the Web has ignited, many decisions in medicine today are still made without reliable comparative information. The analytics methodology that can address patients' and ...
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UK leader wants health service to help industry
News 10NBC
By SYLVIA HUI (AP) LONDON - Britain's publicly-funded National Health Service should share all patient data anonymously with private health care companies to boost innovation in a key UK industry, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday. ...
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AmeriCares & GE Foundation Improving Health Care for the Uninsured
MarketWatch (press release)
5, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- New online resource to help improve care at free clinics nationwide AmeriCares and the GE Foundation have teamed up to launch an innovative online resource guide for free clinics and nonprofit health care centers ...
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Chesapeake Urology Named Among Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern ...
Sacramento Bee
5, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Urology Associates has been named among the Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare, which recently released its annual list which recognizes outstanding employers in the healthcare industry on a ...
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Free Preventive Health Services Pushing Disease Prevention to the Forefront
U.S. News & World Report
By Michael Morella One welcome provision of healthcare reform embraces the adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. As of September 2010, new insurance plans (and some established ones) are offering participants a host of preventive ...
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Tracking The GOP Presidential Candidates' Health Care Maneuvers
Kaiser Health News
At the Washington Post's Right Turn blog, Jennifer Rubin writes on Newt Gingrich's former backing of an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and how it's affecting his standing among conservatives. "If some conservatives think Romney is ...
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Kaiser Health News
Consultant finds Mt. Diablo Health Care District dissolution justified
San Jose Mercury News
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen Dissolution of the Mt. Diablo Health Care District would substantially reduce overhead costs and free up that money for community health programs, an independent consultant has concluded. The analysis was done for the Contra ...
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UCSF, GE Healthcare Team Up on Pioneering Cord Blood Project
UCSF Today
UCSF and the Cell Technologies business of GE Healthcare Life Sciences have begun a unique collaboration aimed at overcoming the lack of blood-forming stem cells available to patients suffering from life-threatening diseases such as lymphoma, myeloma, ...
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UCSF Today
Eric Topol discusses mobile health's impact on healthcare
MedCity News Youtube Channel
Eric Topol discusses his ideas about technology and medicine as well as the themes in his new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care.
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America needs a health care ruling
The Hill (blog)
The Nation's highest court agreed to consider four key questions concerning the constitutionality of the health care law including whether Congress had the authority to require individuals to buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a tax penalty. ...
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Did Romney's Health Care Law Control Health Care Costs?
ThinkProgress
By Igor Volsky on Dec 5, 2011 at 2:25 pm On Saturday, during the GOP presidential forum on Fox News' Huckabee, Mitt Romney conceded that his 2006 health care reform law in Massachusetts did not lower health care spending, saying the effort was focused ...
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ThinkProgress
Mental healthcare systems under scrutiny
Financial Express Bangladesh
Efforts to strengthen Bangladesh's 'Primary Healthcare Delivery Systems for Mental Health' have clearly not been good enough as one adviser on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) regional office for South East ...
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Bottomline buys a pair of firms, gets health care tech
Mass High Tech
By Rodney H. Brown Bottomline Technologies Inc. of Portsmouth, NH, is continuing its 2011 acquisition strategy, buying a pair of companies, one of which adds to its health care technology offerings, the company said in a release. ...
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Mass High Tech
Accuray Incorporated to Speak at 22nd Annual Oppenheimer Healthcare Conference
Sacramento Bee
5, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), the premier radiation oncology company, announced today that its management is scheduled to present at the Oppenheimer Healthcare Conference in New York City on Tuesday, December 13, ...
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