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Healthcare Consolidation: M&A Not the Only Way

Healthcare Consolidation: M&A Not the Only Way

by PHILIP BETBEZE | 6/19/2013

Regulatory barriers that once thwarted any pressure felt by hospitals and health systems to consolidate and uncover economies of scale or scope have eased. But consolidation doesn't always come via an acquisition.

Patients Shoulder Nearly 25% of Medical Bills

by JOHN COMMINS | 6/18/2013

Data from the American Medical Association details the costs of medical billing complexity on patients and physicians, who are put "in the awkward situation of having to ask patients for money," says an AMA board member.

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Healtheway HIE Announces Founding Members

by SCOTT MACE | 8:04 AM ET

Operating as a non-profit, public-private partnership, Healtheway supports the eHealth Exchange, a health information exchange, serving thousands of providers and millions of patients. Its founding members include health systems, technology vendors, and the American Medical Association.

Healthcare Costs 'An Abomination' Says Senate Finance Committee Chair

by MARGARET DICK TOCKNELL | 6/19/2013

A Senate committee session in which expert witnesses discussed healthcare costs, hospital prices, and data transparency ended with a plea from the chair, Sen. Max Baucus, for "specific recommendations" from "anyone."

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SLIDESHOW: Solve Hospital Staff Shortages with Humanoid Robots

Healthcare job creation may be in decline, but there are still jobs to be filled. And human healthcare workers maybeing supplemented by an automated workforce, especially in jobs such as nursing, which provide direct patient care.

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Hospital investors sold on US health reform despite bumps – The Baltimore Sun / Reuters, June 20, 2013
Wiser medication use could cut health costs – St. Louis Post-Dispatch / Associated Press, June 20, 2013
Tighter security coming for FL prescription database – The Miami Herald / Associated Press, June 20, 2013
Investigation follows trail of a virus in hospitals – The New York Times, June 20, 2013
Health orgs oppose WI bill barring docs from asking about gun ownership – Star Tribune, June 20, 2013
CMS stresses doctors' rights to challenge data collected under Sunshine Act – Bloomberg BNA, June 20, 2013
Q&A with Farzad Mostashari, MD – Healthcare IT News, June 20, 2013
New England has more primary care doctors than most of US – Portland Press Herald, June 20, 2013
Artificial spleen offers hope for faster sepsis diagnosis, treatment – MIT Technology Review, June 20, 2013
Sleep deprivation in hospitals is a real problem – The Atlantic, June 20, 2013

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