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MiamiHerald.com
OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Pressure rising over Medicare Advantage cuts
The Hill (blog)
the subcommitte's chairman, has already led two meaty hearing on Medicare physician payment reform and waste, fraud and abuse in U.S. healthcare. Read more from the subpanel's schedule here. Remember that welfare debate? It's back in Congress as of ...
Defining a New Healthcare Conversation: Q&A With Former CMS Administrator ...Becker's ASC Review

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The Republic
Hospital Readmissions for US Medicare Patients Decline
Businessweek
Hospital readmission rates for Medicare patients are dropping after increasing for more than five years as the 2010 U.S. health-care law begins levying penalties for excessive numbers of repeat patient visits. Thirty-day readmission rates fell to 17.8 ...
OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Pressure rising over Medicare Advantage cutsThe Hill (blog)
Defining a New Healthcare Conversation: Q&A With Former CMS Administrator ...Becker's ASC Review

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The Republic
Hospital Readmissions for U.S. Medicare Patients Decline
Bloomberg
Hospital readmission rates for Medicare patients are dropping after increasing for more than five years as the 2010 U.S. health-care law begins levying penalties for excessive numbers of repeat patient visits. Thirty-day readmission rates fell to 17.8 ...
Defining a New Healthcare Conversation: Q&A With Former CMS Administrator ...Becker's Hospital Review
OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Pressure rising over Medicare Advantage cutsThe Hill (blog)

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U.S. News & World Report
Insurance Plays Too Big a Role in the US Healthcare System
U.S. News & World Report
When David Goldhill's father died from an infection he acquired as a hospital patient, the president and chief executive officer of the Game Show Network decided to take a close look at the U.S. healthcare system. In Catastrophic Care: How American ...

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Defining a New Healthcare Conversation: Q&A With Former CMS Administrator ...
Becker's ASC Review
When President Barack Obama implemented a massive overhaul of U.S. healthcare in 2010 through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it was a moment of change that had not been seen for almost two decades. The last time the United States ...

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US Healthcare Blues, Our Medical Bills Are Killing Us
The Market Oracle
U.S. Healthcare Blues, Our Medical Bills Are Killing Us. Politics / Healthcare Sector Feb 28, 2013 - 06:57 AM GMT. By: John_Mauldin · Politics. It has been some time since we peeked into my worry closet. A few questions this weekend prompted me to ...

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Nuance: Virtual assistants to 'drastically' change US healthcare by 2018
ZDNet
Nuance: Virtual assistants to 'drastically' change U.S. healthcare by 2018. Summary: Most doctors in the U.S. believe that virtual assistants will change how they interact and use electronic health records in the next five years, according to Nuance.

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MarketWatch (press release)
Revelytix Successful Hadoop Proof of Concept for Major US Healthcare Provider
MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Strata Conference - Big Data software and tools provider Revelytix today announced it has successfully completed a Hadoop-based pilot for a top tier U.S. Healthcare company. The pilot sought to establish the ...

Revelytix Successful Hadoop Proof of Concept for Major U.S. Healthcare Provider
PR Newswire (press release)
26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Strata Conference – Big Data software and tools provider Revelytix today announced it has successfully completed a Hadoop-based pilot for a top tier U.S. Healthcare company. The pilot sought to establish the scalability and ...

Craneware cashing in on US Medicare overhaul
Business7
Craneware said cost savings and efficiencies introduced to curb US Medicare spending to the government's cap of one per cent of GDP has led to the US healthcare market “beginning to embrace the changes forced upon it, seeking means to control costs ...
Craneware reaps US benefitsInvestors Chronicle
Craneware hikes divi as pre-tax profits riseStock Market Wire

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IShares Dow Jones US Healthcare Providers Index (IHF) : Short Sell @ $72.90
Daily Markets (blog)
On a relative basis against the IVV S&P500, the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Providers Index Fund is turning down as key moving averages are reversing down. Trading strategy: Short Sell @ $72.90 – Stop loss @ $74 – Target @ $70. Copyright 1999 ...

Israel Applies For U.S. Medicare
The Jewish Week
JERUSALEM—The State of Israel, which will turn 65 years old on May 14, plans to apply for Medicare, the U.S. national social insurance program, according to Chaim Weizguy, head of Israel's Health and Welfare Agency. Weizguy announced that Israel ...

KBA announces OfficeforHealth™ for US Healthcare Providers, Creating a Real ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Forces at work in the Healthcare Industry are creating a tremendous opportunity for technological change and innovation. InterDyn - Remington Consulting and KBA Alliances partner together to deliver Microsoft Cloud Based Solutions and Services to the ...

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New Fund Aims To Capitalize On Problems Facing US Healthcare System
FINalternatives
Ronnie Hale serves as the fund manager for the newly-launched National Healthcare Development Fund (NHDF). Hale previously served as fund manager for Epic Capital Advisors, and Chairman and CEO of YRSI Holdings. He recently spoke with ...

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Accord nearer on US healthcare law
The Tablet (subscription)
Accord nearer on US healthcare law. 20 February 2013. The US bishops and other key Catholic stakeholders are trying to determine how to respond to the latest revisions to the Obama administration's controversial contraception mandate. The edict ...

KBA announces OfficeforHealth™ for US Healthcare Providers, Creating a Real ...
PR Web (press release)
KBA announces OfficeforHealth™ for US Healthcare Providers, Creating a Real Outcome for Better Health. Forces at work in the Healthcare Industry are creating a tremendous opportunity for technological change and innovation. InterDyn - Remington ...

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Financial effects of US healthcare law based on perception: Survey
Tire Business
WASHINGTON (Feb. 19, 2013) — Most employers' reported experiences regarding the financial impact of the healthcare reform act appear to be based largely on perception rather than measurable data, according to a new Willis Global Holdings P.L.C. ...

US Medicare recipients to see their drug costs reduced under CMS plan
The Pharma Letter
US Medicare recipients to see their drug costs reduced under CMS plan. Article | 18 February 2013. Print This. Under proposed policies released Friday by the USA's the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare beneficiaries will get ...

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Kinect could help cut US healthcare costs by $30B, researchers say
FierceHealthIT
Telehealth could be as simple as a video game, with new innovation from Microsoft Kinect. The motion-sensing controller could cut the U.S. healthcare bill by up to $30 billion, preventing the risk of infection and reducing hospital visits by letting ...

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The Decade-Long Slowdown in US Healthcare Spending (in a Graph)
The Atlantic
There haven't been many happy stories to cut through the doom and gloom surrounding America's out-of-control, paycheck eating, budget-busting healthcare costs. But here's one of them, graphed by researchers at the Altarum Institute. Over the past ...