Tag: health care business

Supreme Court: Can State Governments Dictate How Publicly Available Information Can Be Used?

At issue: Doctors prescribing records: The data has become more available because…

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Is Price Competition the Key to Higher Quality?

In our third-party-payer health insurance system the price for care is typically…

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Health Care Buzz Today

ScrubdIn Announces Winners of 2011 Best Medical Apps Contest. Best medical app…

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An Alternative to Malpractice

About three decades ago, University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein proposed…

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Why do People in High Deductible Plans Seek Less Preventive Care?

A notable finding from a RAND study How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans…

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Scribes Continue to Grow in Hospitals

Nobody thought that scribes were going to a permanent solution but it…

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Can a $3 Million Prize Solve a $2.5 Billion Dollar Problem?

If a health plan could predict which patients will incur the most…

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Report: Branded Drug Use Sharply Down, Generics Way Up

A healthcare informatics company issues a report today that I really do…

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Walmart Buys Social Media Company Kosmix

Ok let me get the humor out of the way here first,…

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OneMedForum NY 2011 Grows Its Advisory Board And Selects Initial Presenters

OneMedForum NY 2011, to be held June 23 -24, has added new…

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