As a follow up to a $1 billion initiative last year that funded projects across the nation designed to improve outcomes and save money in the healthcare system, the Centers ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Obama administration effort to raise private donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law came under fire on Monday from congressional Republicans who claim ...
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As biometrics has evolved from the stuff of James Bond plot lines to an increasingly common security tool, the healthcare industry is beginning to take an interest to better protect ...
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Version 2.0 of a plan to create an Office of mHealth in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should be out soon. The office of U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, Silicon ...
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Identity Thief, the movie The immigration reform measure that the Senate began debating this week would also create a national biometric database of American adults, according to Wired. Immigration reform ...
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Here's the question making the rounds in Colorado: Is the state asking for enough start-up money from the federal government for its online health insurance marketplace?The Colorado State Capitol (Photo by Alexander Meins ...
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Despite a three-year-old order from Congress, Medicare has yet to begin an experiment to expand hospice services to allow beneficiaries to continue potentially lifesaving treatments to see if it would ...
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As state governments get ready for the Affordable Care Act coverage expansion, some are taking a close look at their networks of health care professionals to make sure they will ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. hospital charges for the same procedure vary widely, in some cases by tens of thousands of dollars, even within a particular town or city, according to ...
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Remember when Segway first came out and there was a rush of legislation to ban it from municipal sidewalks? Something similar seems to be happening to Google Glass. West Virginia ...
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Slower growth in the pace of U.S. healthcare spending reflects a fundamental change in the use of medical services that could save the country nearly $800 billion in the next ...
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Doing more with less is one of the more derided phrases in a world where cost-cutting and downsizing have been the go-to strategy for many segments of corporate America.But that ...
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Healthcare reform should be the signature Democratic achievement of President Barack Obama's presidency. But with "Obamacare" five months from show time, Democrats are worried about whether enough Americans will sign ...
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The wide variation in spending to hire and train people to provide consumer assistance in the first year of the new marketplaces could have a major impact on how many ...
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While a doctor might be everyone's first choice, seeing a provider with less training may be better than not receiving care at all or having to travel a long way ...
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